help! i dont know dos commands

[ElrichMeister]

ok i have a stupid file on my desktop i saved it there, and i cant delete it, its annoying, it says that some one or something is using, but i have no idea whats using, so how do i delete it using the command prompt,<BR><BR>well this what i tried<BR><BR>i opened i command prompt and it starts out like this<BR><BR>F:Documents and SettingsDick><BR><BR><BR>F:Documents and SettingsDickDesktopfile.exe <----- thats where the file is at<BR><BR>dont i just type that with "del" a space after it. <BR><BR>but then it says that its a worng thing and that it cant find F:Documents', BTW my windows is installed in the F drive for some reason<BR>

[therealwesty]

del F:Documents and SettingsDickDesktopfile.exe<BR><BR>OR<BR><BR>cd F:Documents and SettingsDickDesktop <--- to get to the appropritate folder<BR><BR>del file.exe

[ElrichMeister]

ahh it said cant delete cause another process is using it<BR>ahh

[therealwesty]

Any chance you could kill the process with the task manager or something? Maybe the specific file shows up in task manager. I seem to remember some sort of way to view the enitre process tree. But, I am not at home now... my work machine is WinNT4 so I can't check how to do it.

[Iceman]

the 'real' command you need is:<BR><BR>format c: /y<BR><BR><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0"> jus kiddin' <-- don't try it!!

[Dude]

You could try this little utility to see what is using the file.<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.mstsoftware.com/cFreeware.aspx">MST isusedby</a>

[Ginsu543]

If you know for sure that the file in question is not being used by any of the programs you need, you can just reboot in COMMAND mode (pressing F8 during bootup, I believe), go to the appropriate location and del that baby.