my problem is indirectly related to the problem above. Unlocker Programs are big help in such cases but in my case i have not yet pinpointed the cause. It happens to my system mainly in the desktop and start menu where, everytime i drag and drop shortcuts within there, the links get deleted and what remains are just the root folders. When i attempt to delete these “empty” folders i get the above mentioned messages which i end up deleting with unlocker but the annoying thing is, i have lost the link and end up making a new one which is a bit trick.

I have a problem where i want to delete the old Documents and Settings from my last windows install and there is no process it just wont happen.

My problem started after changing my drive letters using Partition Magic. Since then my index-es on all my partitions got trashed. Chkdsk managed to clear all my problems from all my partitions but 1. The biggest. There it said it hasn’t got enough space to perform that operation. It is a 300gb partition who now only has abt. 40gb free (After hard work trying to delete files). The problem is that chkdsk seems to have locked that hard drive and because of the bad indexes i cannot delete anything. Actually, if i try deleting as soon as i enter windows, i can delete files, but hitting refresh just points out that the files haven’t been deleted as they reappear there through magic :). I tried turning off system restore and indexing services on those hard disks. Now my entries are corrupt and i cannot delete them. I can copy… but i don’t have enough space to copy all my 300gb. Anyway, i tried using a large number of unlock programs with no success. Tried deleting in safe mode. No luck. So actually right now i’m in a circle. I cannot delete files because of chkdsk lock and i cannot perform chkdsk lock because i cannot delete files to free space. Any suggestions?

I had trouble with a corrupt jpg file, it had an extremely long name, and it was impossible to move or delete, i tried deleting it in safe mode, i even tried moveonboot which was supposed to work, i eventually got rid of it just using command prompt. To get the dos name of the file, simply type “dir /X” which will give u a list of files and directories, but with the old form of dos name (eg filena~1.txt) and then “del [filename]”

Unlocker will NOT delete acroIEHelper.dll and two other .dlls in Acrobat 7.0.

well, the “unlocker” download, in several incarnations, just
didn’t work. Now I have to uninstall this crap and triple-re-run
the diagnostics to make sure you didn’t send me a load of sh*t
Tom

Well, I am not in a good mood. your software doesn’t work

did not work for me :/

Well it was a good thought but i tried that program and it didnt work. It won’t delete an empty folder such as I have so I am stumped for the moment. I’ve been working on this and many other problems for about four days.

Unblocker didn’t work for me either. In fact it cost me a lot of time re-installing my graphics drivers because it corrupted them and a couple of other files as well.. So I uninstalled it and booted it into the distance.

Unblocker is junk. Stop ruining your credibility by advocating something that doesn’t work.