Most effective way to delete stubborn files?

I usually go into the cmd prompt and delete from there, but I was wondering if there were utilities out there for help desk or entry level folk to delete files from a Windows operating system?

Sometimes you get those goofy temp error or other files that don't want to delete within the parameters of the operating systems gui.

Just curious

Thanks

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Reseven

I haven't had that problem with newer OS's, but occasionally XP would do that to me (or someone else).
I used an Ubuntu live disc. Booted up with that and deleted those pesky files!

There probably is a better way, but that always worked for me.

ptilsen

Unlocker is the first program that comes to mind.

Attaching the drive to another system or booting into a Win PE or Linux Live CD environment also works, but obviously reboots aren't always practical.

Bloogen

LockHunter sometimes works on some systems where unlocker is not well supported which I think is some or all 64 bit Windows OS'.

nosoup4u

ptilsen wrote: »

Unlocker is the first program that comes to mind.

Attaching the drive to another system or booting into a Win PE or Linux Live CD environment also works, but obviously reboots aren't always practical.

Unlocker works pretty well for me.

I think Ccleaner also has a file deletion component

qcomer

Killbox is what I use

kriscamaro68

SDelete is a good way to get rid of something for good. You can DL it from here: SDelete

gosh1976

file assassin component of malware bytes and that doesn't do it killbox.

wweboy

+1 to Unlocker awesome piece of software. also hold down SHIFT when deleting a file but this will PERM delete hte file so make extra sure you want to delete the file first

4_lom

Unlocker.