I know it sounds simple, but have you logged on locally as the administrator account and tried to delete it?
If you're using roaming profiles, I assume that this file is the views.dat file from the user's roaming profile, which, again, I assume you have somewhere on the user's home directory, or something like that. You could remove the registry entry for that user/users that references the views.dat (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Outlook\Office Explorer) and see if the file is moved down at next logon. I would assume that once you remove the registry entry that references the location of views.dat that it would no longer attempt to load it. But if this is a roaming profile you are using, deleting and recreating the file at the source, the remote server share, would be what you want to do, I would guess. Or, you could, as a last resort, remove Outlook, delete the file, the re-install Outlook. There are also tools out there for deleting locked files. One such tool can be located at http://www.codeguru.com/files/ForceDel.shtml. As always, back up before you try these things and these are just guesses on my part. I have no actual experience with this situation. I'm just brainstorming and hoping something in here helps you. If I'm wrong on anything here guys, please let me know. (I'm sure everyone will ;) ) -Chris -----Original Message----- From: Steve Flook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:21 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: error performing inpage operation Workstation: Win2k Pro using roaming profiles with NT4 server I had a computer that had the power cord accidentally kicked and ever since one single file on that local machine is giving an "error performing inpage operation" error message when logging in, preventing the machine from pulling the server's copy of this person's profile. The file is a small .dat file (less than 4k) named views.dat for outlook, and I can't seem to delete it, overwrite it, etc. I read the only KB (Q141117) article I could find explaining the reasoning for this error but it doesn't give any clues how to remove the file, etc. Has anyone run across something like this or know how to delete this file? While grabbing for straws, I ran chkdsk but it didn't help any. Thanks- Steve Flook ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as archive@jab.org Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
