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scottcsmith

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Tue Jan-27-04 02:04 PM
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21. Boot into Windows safe mode

Do you know how to boot into Windows safe mode? As your computer is booting, you'll get to a point where the screen clears and, in most cases, you'll see a blinking cursor in one of the upper-hand corners. At that point press F8 on the keyboard. You should get the safe-mode boot screen. Boot into safe mode, and you should be able to delete the file.

Also, just to be on the safe side, I'd run your anti-virus software again while you're in safe mode. There are some files that cannot be deleted when you run the virus scan in regular Windows.

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