Have you ever come across such circumstance? Would like to delete the unwanted or useless files but fails to make it by using the normal way? No matter how many times you tried, an error message just keeps showing up, indicating that you cannot delete the file. By and large, it is caused by the several reasons: 1. Access is denied. 2. The file is used by other program or users. 3. There is a sharing violation. 4. The disk is not full or write-protected. 5. Explorer.exe somehow locks files into place and won’t allow them to be deleted. Regardless of the real cause, it is an annoyance facing such situation. So, is there any possibility to deleted the file?
In this highly developed digital world, almost everything is possible. Now, I will show you how to delete the undeletable file step by step as below. Important: Please be careful to choose the file/folder needs to be deleted, making sure that you don’t delete the wrong one accidentally.
Step 1. Run the Command Prompt. Click the “Start” button in the lower left corner of your computer, type “cmd” in the searching column, then right click the “cmd.exe” and choose “Run as Administrator”.
Step 2. Now you will see the Administrator Command Prompt window, leave it open. Then, use your mouse right click the tool bar at the button of your computer and choose “Start Task Manager”, or you can use the “CTRL+SHIFT+ESC” Key combination to open it.
Step 3. In the task manager window, click “Processes” to select “explorer.exe” and hit “End Process”. Soon afterwards, a small window will pop up saying “Do you want to end ‘explorer.exe’? Please go on to hit the “End Process”.
Step 4. Now, leave Task Manager open and go back to the Command Prompt Window. Now, you need to type the line-cd “PATH OF YOUR FILE” in the window. For example, you can enter “cd “%USERPROFILE%”\Downloads” and then hit “Enter”. After that, run this line: del filename. extension. For instance: del filename.mkv. Don’t forget to hit “Enter”. Afterwards, the specified file will be deleted by the system.
Step 5. Restart the Explorer. You can make it like this: open “Task Manager”, hit the “File” button and choose “New Task (Run…)”, soon afterwards, a “Create New Task” window will appear, then you can enter “EXPLORER.EXE” in the “Open” column and hit “OK” button. The process will be restarted once again. Finally, close Task Manager. You will find that the undeletable file has been deleted successfully.