I remember some trick that worked on Windows 98: you could create a directory from a DOS Window whose name was the character you get by typing "ALT-255" (or some other weird ASCII character). It would show up as an underscore in Windows Explorer, IIRC. You couldn't browse this directory within Windows itself, and any attempts to click on the file gave you an error, "File Not Found."
I don't know if Windows XP supports weird characters in filenames, but if not, you might look at that as a possibility. I don't even know if Windows XP has a "DOS Box" or anything like that, but you could always try deleting it from a dos window (or if it no longer has one, I suppose you could boot into dos, even from a system disk or something). ~ ross On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, John Noll wrote: > My roommate cannot delete a file he picked up from a friend. > > We backed up a friend's entire hard drive to my roommates computer, but when > tried to delete all of the files everything deleted except for a link file. > It is a link with a very naughty title. We have no idea where our friend > got it and of course he is not around for questioning. We've tried using a > hard drive scrubber and the eraser program on the SSS cd. Yesterday, we > tried to run the sobig worm removal utility from Symantec and it crashes > everytime it runs once it runs across this abominable link file. When we > try to delete it regularly we get an error saying the source file cannot be > found. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
