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Why can't I delete some .exe files?

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Mar 15, 202634062 views
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I've been having a really strange problem in Windows 7 that's been driving me nuts. Sometimes when I delete a folder full of random files (and no, not files in the Windows folder) and one of those files is an .exe, the .exe will refuse to delete (which prevents the folder from properly deleting too…

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I know this is a really old question of mines, but this was driving me absolutely nuts. After a quick Google search with the right keywords, I was able to figure out that the reason why Explorer was hanging onto my executables was because my Applica…

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