How To Delete An “Undeletable” File/Folder

Some times you are not able to delete any file/folder or getting error while deleting file/folder like that: "Cannot delete file: Access is denied. Make Sure that disk is not full or write protected and the file is not currently in use." You are not able to even after restart your computer. So here I am sharing some methods to delete this type of file/folder without use of any software.

• Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.
• Close all open programs.
• Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
• Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
• Leave Task Manager open.
• Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.
• At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete.
• Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
• Close Task Manager.

Or you can try this

• Open Notepad.exe
• Click File>Save As..>
• locate the folder where ur undeletable file is
• Choose ‘All files’ from the file type box
• click once on the file u wanna delete so its name appears in the ‘filename’ box
• put a ” at the start and end of the filename
• (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)
• click save,
• It should ask u to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and u can delete it as normal.