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Originally posted by lavey92
it says that it cannot be deleted due to it being used elsewhere

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Ok here's what you need to do to delete the file...

Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to bring up Task Manager.

On the Processes tab, find explorer.exe and click End Process.

Now go to File > New Task. Enter cmd and press OK. This will bring up the Command Prompt.

In the Command Prompt you need to type cd (standing for change directory) and a space, followed by the folder location of the suspicious file, so C:\users\david\appdata\roaming... (see what the rest of the file's location is in AutoRuns). Then press enter.

The prompt should now say the folder you entered, meaning you're "inside" that folder. You can now type del and a space, followed by the file, to delete it. Optionally, so you know it's worked, add a space and /p on the end which will prompt "Delete (Y/N)?" in which you type y and press enter.

Here's an example of me deleting an example.txt file in my Firefox's AppData:



Once the file is deleted, in Task Manager you can go to File > New Task, enter explorer and press enter, which will open Windows up again.