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10-10-2004, 11:16 PM
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Can't delete a file from my desktop!
I downloaded the apache server program the other night to try it out, well I couldn't get it to install right so I decided to move on to other things. When I went to delete the exe. file from my desktop I got this message "Cannot delete appserv-win32-2.4.1: It is being used by another person or program."
"Close any programs that might be using the file and try again." My question is how do I figure out what programs are using it so i can stop them and delete this thing from my desktop? Keep in mind I never installed the program, I only downloaded the installation program to my desktop. Any help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated! Oh yeah! First time poster and long time lurker so go easy. 
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10-10-2004, 11:51 PM
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Reboot into safe mode and delete it. If that doesn't work, try MoveOnBoot.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html |
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10-10-2004, 11:58 PM
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This is gonna sound stupid, but how do I reboot into safe mode?
 Scratch that. I used the program you reccomended. Thanx for the help. Last edited by ken_tbh; 10-11-2004 at 12:17 AM. |
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10-11-2004, 02:40 PM
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For future reference, press the F8 key before the windows loading screen appears.
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