Shoutbox

i downloaded a patch for my red alert game....so it can play on windows xp, but the patch.exe and this other .exe that came with it wont delete.

it says 'close any programs that might be using the file and try again'
                ive opened task manager and ended all the processes run by the owner that i dont recognise but i stil cant delete them. can anyone help me?

is there a way to force delete things?

thanks. soz for the noob question