Possible to remove a file within regedit ?

[Kerplunk]

Does anyone know the path within regedit to My Documents?

I have this file in My Docs which I cannot delete and was looking to hop to the relevant file within regedit and get rid of it there?

Anyone ?

 

[marc2003]

i think you should leave regedit well alone. you quite clearly have no idea what it is for and tinkering with it when you have no clue can easily render your computer unusable....

try rebooting your machine into safe mode and see if you can delete the file that way. failing that try moveonboot

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/MoveOnBoot.shtml

 

[Kerplunk]

Neither work.

Any other suggestions. ?

 

[RobH]

What type of file is it? If it's being used by windows then there is a probably a good reason for it.

 

[Kerplunk]

Thanks but as my original question, how do I access My Doc from regedit?

 

[Pyrosoft]

My documents isn't in the registry though is it...it's a folder.
But the path to it, if you were pointing to it in the registry would be
"C:\Documents and Settings\*username*\My Documents"

That said...I'd be tempted to agree with marc2003's first comment...

 

[dirtydog]

Thanks but as my original question, how do I access My Doc from regedit?

You can't delete files from within Regedit. That is the answer.

If you tell us what sort of file it is, people might be able to help

This program may help you:-
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

 

[Pyrosoft]

The only way I think that regedit could help, would be to create a batch file to remove the file, and add the path to the batch file in the runonce path of the registry.


Not really a solution, but it is the only way I could think that the registry could be of any use what so ever.

Boot into DOS, delete the file, reboot.
Job done.

 

[L33]

have you tried del "C:\file.xxx" /F from a command line? (the /F switch means 'force'..)