XP Error: Cannot delete file. Access is denied

You have definitely seen this error. Once, twice, ten times ... Cannot delete file or folder. Access is denied.

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Most of the time a restart help. But if the problem persists then there are several ways to solve it. One of these would be Unlocker, an application that Unlock the file Or the problem folder, which can be erased.

Another solution would be to stop Explorer.exe and then to Delete the file. To be able to do this, open an cmd (Command Prompt) then open the menu of Shutdown And press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Cancel at the same time to close explorer.exe. Then change into cmd The path to the folder where the file is located (use the command cd) if you taste OF THE filename, where filename It is the name of the file you want to delete.

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After you have erased the file, open Task Manager-ul (ctrl+alt+del), click on File->New Task->tastati explorer.exe And give Enter for restart GUI shell.

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