Impossable to delete folder

[benjo]

Hello all

This one seems a bit tricky..

Basically i had a game that i backed up onto another hdd. I uninstalled the original.. then at a later date i put the back up back into the directory..

The game doesnt run (lol) and it isnt in add/remove... So i tried to just delete it

I manually deleted every file/sub folder within the game folder.. and its completely empty. But the empty folder wont delete

I tried tuneup utilities deleter, but that said it couldnt delete because a system file was in use and it was dangerous to delete...

I then noticed the recycle bin icon was full, so i look in there but its empty.. I choose to empty recycle bin and it says "Are you sure you want to delete "voodoodl.dll"?"

I'm guessing this is the system file associated with the game folder, but i cant delete either? I cant restore the .dll because there isnt actually anything inside the recycle bin.

Anybody have any ideas? I hope i explained this clearly

Thanks

 

[marc2003]

reboot into safe mode? or try ending the explorer.exe process using task manager and using a command prompt window?

rd "full path to folder"

should do it.

 

[Mel_P]

Is the folder really empty - any hidden files?

 

[TONY]

I was having a problem deleting a file once and managed to get it into the recycle bin and then reduce the bin size to 0 and that got rid of it, not the best method but it worked for me at the time.

 

[uknorthboy]

You could try this it may help.... http://www.killbox.net/help.html