[Musashin]

I attempted to browse my shared folders this morning, when all of a sudden windows explorer crashed. I thought meh, it was probably a one time thing, so tried again and got the same error. Everytime I try to open the folder or do anything with it, explorer would crash.
I then came to the conclusion that I had some kind of corrupted/malicious file in there, so I opened the command prompt and tried viewing the directory contents with dir. Everytime I tried to do that, the command prompt just closed, so I tried to delete the entire folder manually and through the cmd prompt, which just crashed explorer again. I tried booting in safe mode, but that didn't return anything new either, same crashing.

I'm a little worried about this, does anybody have any advice on how I could delete it without formatting my drive? I'd appreciate some ideas, I'm stumped.



Regards,
Musashin.

[eLliDKraM]

delete your computer, stupid

[Musashin]

eLliDKraM, on 6 Jun, 2007 - 06:07 PM, said:

delete your computer, stupid

Thanks for that seemingly pointless and flammatory comment, it doesn't seem to help with my problem though.

[eLliDKraM]

Quote

eLliD KraM: i still wonder how people manage to post in the lounge
eLliD KraM: incorrectly
Chris Kenworthy: lol
eLliD KraM: it's like
eLliD KraM: is it really that fucking hard
eLliD KraM: i mean you gotta check your life away
eLliD KraM: ok
eLliD KraM: here's what you do
Chris Kenworthy: lol
eLliD KraM: right above topic title
eLliD KraM: make them fucking type
eLliD KraM: i am not a retarded bitch who can't read and will post this shit in the right forum
eLliD KraM: if it doesn't say that exactly
eLliD KraM: it won't post
eLliD KraM: it will just ban them
Chris Kenworthy: lol

[skyhawk133]

I think what Mr. Dille is trying to say is you may not have posted this in the right forum. So... I'll move it to the Operating System forum since it sounds like an OS type question

[Musashin]

skyhawk133, on 6 Jun, 2007 - 06:11 PM, said:

I think what Mr. Dille is trying to say is you may not have posted this in the right forum. So... I'll move it to the Operating System forum since it sounds like an OS type question

Fair enough. Maybe eLliDKraM should learn some manners.
I'm on XP SP2 by the way, but figured this would be the right section to post in. Guess not.

[skyhawk133]

It's ok. I actually had the pleasure (??) of meeting Mr. Dille in person last week and I can say he's as much of an asshole in real life as he is here

Dille, I mean that in the nicest way possible and you know I still love you

Musashin, the lounge is more for off topic, non tech type discussion.

[eLliDKraM]

you son of a bitch

let's forgive and forget over some nice goat sex

[Musashin]

skyhawk133, on 6 Jun, 2007 - 06:19 PM, said:

Musashin, the lounge is more for off topic, non tech type discussion.

Understood. I don't post as often as I browse here, so skimmed the sections and figured that posting in the lounge would be more appropriate than in something like Java support. I thought it was more of a 'general discussion' area.

Anyway.. does anyone have a solution or recommendation to my problem?

This post has been edited by Musashin: 06 June 2007 - 06:40 PM

[eLliDKraM]

thank god chris rectified all this misunderstanding, all praise the lightweight

[Amadeus]

Have you tried moving the folder (using the command prompt) to another folder (some temp folder you set up), then deleting that?

[Musashin]

Amadeus, on 6 Jun, 2007 - 08:07 PM, said:

Have you tried moving the folder (using the command prompt) to another folder (some temp folder you set up), then deleting that?

Yep, I tried that after trying to delete the original folder, same crash. I also tried renaming and deleting, but that failed too.

[born2c0de]

I've had similar problems in the past.
Use any File Shredder to remove the Folder.

[William_Wilson]

i have found most issues of this type can be fixed with the command prompt, but explorer cannot be running at the same time.

first, open a command prompt in the correct folder
hit ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+shift+esc to open the task manager, and kill explorer.exe
the command prompt should still be open, if it happened to close you'll have to load another, from task manager-> new task-> cmd.
delete the folder, or move it
hit ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+shift+esc once more and select new task from the appropriate tab
and run explorer.exe to get windows menus/taskbar back

Most often the files are somehow linked to explorer and if it is not running, there is no problem deleting it.

[Beng]

I had a similar problem.

Try downloading Unlocker, its free and will delete any undeletable file.... Well i haven;t found one it won;t delete.
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

just install and have running in background and try to delete file/folder.