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For the love of god Windows
« on: April 09, 2008, 08:12:09 am »
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Fixed. 1up yours MS.

[spoiler=What was wrong if you're interested]
Basically, I have two files on my desktop. When I was downloading/deleting/i can't remembering them, I accidentally kicked my computer's reboot button on the tower. So I boot back up to find they're there.

I try to delete them, but it says it can't find them. OK, maybe the desktop didn't update. Try refresh. Nope. Log off. No still there. I can't delete them.

So I wondered what happened when I renamed one. OK, an infinite loop, "The source and destination file names are the same". I click X, Cancel, it won't go away. OK, I'll rename it. Rename... try to apply... oh! Can't find the file again! So it's an infinite loop of fail.

Is there any way of deleting these !@#$% files (or at least their "imaginary icons" according to Windows)?

Edit: and CMD lists them both when I do "dir", so they exist... right? X_X[/spoiler]
« Last Edit: April 09, 2008, 10:31:36 am by AoDC »
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2008, 08:15:42 am »
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If all else fails, reboot.  Haha, not a very good answer, but that usually works.  There's a program that lets you delete stuff no matter what the problem is, (for instance when you get the error "this file is currently in use", etc).  I'll try to find it before I go to bed.
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Quote from: Shefali on May 04, 2008, 06:47:08 am
You rich !@#$%. I wish I could afford AIDs.
Payback's a !@#$% :P BTW Mamoruanime was here
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2008, 08:24:25 am »
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I tried booting into the other version of Windows, and it said error reading from disk. Which counts as a reboot since I had to reboot to get to it.

Please find this program =)
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2008, 08:28:19 am »
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Quote from: AoDC on April 09, 2008, 08:24:25 am
Please find this program =)

Too...tired...must...sleep..  I tried to find it, but haven't been able to so far.  If you haven't figured this out by then I'll try looking again.  For now, I must sleep, (work in the morning and it's 3:30am in my timezone).
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Quote from: Shefali on May 04, 2008, 06:47:08 am
You rich !@#$%. I wish I could afford AIDs.
Payback's a !@#$% :P BTW Mamoruanime was here
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2008, 08:35:16 am »
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Quote from: Domo on April 09, 2008, 08:28:19 am
Quote from: AoDC on April 09, 2008, 08:24:25 am
Please find this program =)

Too...tired...must...sleep..  I tried to find it, but haven't been able to so far.  If you haven't figured this out by then I'll try looking again.  For now, I must sleep, (work in the morning and it's 3:30am in my timezone).
Thanks for trying at least =)
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2008, 08:55:09 am »
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Um, reboot in msdos mode and erase the files...That's what I do when I get spyware and adware...Better than having to pay for antivirus software...>.> 
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2008, 10:15:59 am »
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OK I tried using cmd with windows on and it said file not found (but it found other files, plus listed them using dir). I tried booting into msdos and it gave me bsod (!@#$% hell).

Edit: Fixed using Unblocker. I told it to delete the file and it did. No problems at all. !@#$% you Microsoft =).
« Last Edit: April 09, 2008, 10:30:42 am by AoDC »
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2008, 12:52:48 pm »
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We also would have accepted "What is Safe Mode" for an answer, we're sorry, you did not get the double jeopardy :D
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Re: For the love of god Windows
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2008, 08:32:29 am »
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Quote from: Mamoruanime on April 09, 2008, 12:52:48 pm
We also would have accepted "What is Safe Mode" for an answer, we're sorry, you did not get the double jeopardy :D
Any form of safe mode gave me bsod. Don't reply to my locked topics.
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