Well, that was a total mess. I got some of it back, but most of it is lost. The good news is that the files that wouldn't delete are gone, lol. Some things you just gotta learn the hard way. Thanks to all who helped out.

"Well, that was a total mess. I got some of it back, but most of it is lost. The good news is that the files that wouldn't delete are gone, lol. Some things you just gotta learn the hard way. "

I needed a good chuckle and it seems jonny did too

The delinvfile thingy worked well for part of what's been undeletable from my recycle folder, yet one file still remains. It was a movie, one I transferred twice. While one of the transferred files would not delete finally did delete with delinvfile, this other one wont.

In normal viewing it seems as if it's a single avi file, yadayada.avi. When I viewed both transferred versions through delinvfile thingy, I saw that each was a folder containing three files, an ico, an avi and another with the avi file for either being only 3 letters long, rather than the multicharacter name the file read through normal means. I could not delete the folders of either so I went inside of each. In one version I deleted eache file individually successfully, and having done that, was able to delete the folder containing them within the recyler bin. In the other folder, still residing in the recycler bin, I was able to delete all but the avi file contained in that folder, and I could not delete the folder either. I have rebooted the computer many times and dealt solely with the recyler bin each time, yet keep getting a message saying the file is being used by another process and refers to the file by the 3 digit avi file name rather than the long name it shows as in the recycler bing.

Using conventional methods, I keep getting a message saying that the file is being used by another process. And while I had this problem yesterday, without using any other software or processes, my CPU is constantly running at 100% and "Explorer", not "IE" is reaching as much as 200MB of use, whereas it's usually anywhere from 20MB to 80MB.

How do I disassociate this file from any other thingy using it, how do I trace what it may be associated with now?

This problem is WASTING MY VALUABLE TIME!!!!!!

HELP!

I'd tend to think like the others that it's some kind of malware. Have you checked the file with your antivirus program (with up to date definitions of course) & checked it with 1. ad-ware (FREE), & 2. Spybot - Search & Destroy (FREE)

Well the alternative way I use is mac osx related & means starting up in a different OS. I guess for windows you might try a different account login with admin priv. But that's if the file shows up in a different login.

Or in a variation of Peerless's advice, put that file in a folder A. Create another folder B & put a copy of any file (but not the bad one) inside & rename it to the one you can't get rid of. Put folder A inside a new folder C. Then add the folder B to folder C to replace it. Either that or put the file from folder B into folder A to replace it.