I had a similar situation when trying to remove WP7 files after upgrading to
WP8. Even the uninstall programs would not remove all of the files. In this
situation it required a special utility available from Corel to clean up
(remove) references to the files in the Windows Registry. After this was
completed it was possible to remove the files using Explorer.
It may be that the files have references to them in the Windows Registry and
this is the reason you can not delete them. If using DOS to delete these
files
one may then get error messages on starting W95. This will require use of
latest Register Clean utility.
Gary
At 02:06 PM 3/10/98 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 23:29:16 EST, you wrote:
>
>:Hi
>:I have made a big mistake. I had a program in a folder that was just a
stand
>:along exe.
>:with 6 files connected to it. I wanted to move the program to a different
>:folder using cleansweep 3.0's program mover. The mistake started with me
>:dragging and dropping the 6 files into the new folder and then using
>:cleansweep to move the exe.file to join the others. When I did this it
>:started a loop that went 23 folders down before First Aid 97 caught the
>:problem and stopped the loop and crashed the system. I tried to delete
>:everything manually, but the exe. file would not delete. Cleansweep does not
>:recognize the exe at this point and First Aid does not know what it is now.
>:So when I try to delete the exe. file the system states to me Access Denied
>:and will not delete, move or recognize this file leaving me with a exe. file
>:23 folders deep in one directory. How do I get rid of this big mistake.
>:I have a PC with Windows 95a Pentium.
>:I will really appreciate the help on this one.
>:TIA
>:
>:Windon Prince
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>
>Sounds like a job for DOS!
>
>Switch to MS DOS and try to delete (DEL) the file. BE SURE .. to check and
see
>if it's a (H)idden, (R)ead Only, or (S)ystem file. This can be done by ...
>"DIR /A" If it is one of the attributes, then use: 'Attrib -h -r -s
file.ext'
>to remove the attribute. Better yet! Use "DelTree.exe" to remove the
>"Directory" (killing two birds with one command)!
>
>Hope this helps
>
>David Cooke
>
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