Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Thank you! I downloaded LockHunter. Fingers crossed! LockHunter did not find the files locked, but could not delete them outright.
I set to delete on restart, and it did not work. It tried to delete files, but said some of them cannot be deleted. I don't have time to mess with it anymore at the present time. I will check into the Mint Cinnamon as time permits. Community Forum Software by IP. Sign In Create Account. Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled.
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Our Answer Tech trained professionals are ready to help: Answer Desk. Security information and training. For computer virus and security-related support for locations outside North America, go to the Microsoft Support website. The was put into recycle bin. No trouble here. Post 7, I missed the point of the described problem. I do not have any PDF reader program installed on my computer. The original poster does have.
Opera, I don't get the message from link one. I did reboot my computer. Cafejose, I have a newer version of windows than you, I have the October update. Plus as you said, you have no viewer installed. Have you tried rebooting, or ending explorer. Sometimes Windows Explorer will take ownership of a media file when it generates a thumbnail for it.
I restarted after using CCleaner and closing browsers. I saw that Sumatra was not open via Task Manager. I did not look at Windows Explorer, because restarting took care of that, or so I thought.
Posted 06 February - PM. You said " I don't get the message from link one. What happens then - are you saying that there is no error message when the system is unable to delete a file? In your first post you said " There were a few files that were long on pdf and said full text on them , those are the ones I cannot delete. I am wondering if these large long? On your first question concerning no error message, that is correct.
I click the file, hit delete and it does nothing. It does not give me any message about it whatsoever. You cannot change the name of the file and delete it either, but it doesn't say it is locked.
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