ok, i have this poroblem I have some video type of file on my destop and i cant get rid off it.I cant delete,rename,or put into a folder,when I do I get the following message: cannot delete file:the filename you specified is invalid or too long specify a different filename.

Soo if anyone knows what to do..plz help me

Open up a command prompt window. This is performed by typing "command" at the run box on the start menu.

From the black box that pops up, navigate to your Desktop directory...try "cd C:\windows\desktop" only without the quotes.

Then type "dir", again without the quotes. Look for the filename that you're trying to delete. If say, the filename is "movie3 .mpg" on your desktop, then it's likely there is a "special" character after the 3.

There may be an extended ASCII character in the files name. Windows doesn't know how to interpret that, so it basically gives up when you try to delete it. It just doesn't understand it.

It made for some interesting fun years ago...heh. Drove people completely nuts!

Anyway, lemme know what the dir command shows for that particular file.

or you could try booting into safe mode ,and deleting it that way ,hit f8 on bootup to go into safe mode .

ya i tried safe mode and it wont delete i also tried to rename the file in DOS and it wont rename cause the file name is hella long and there isint enought room to write.

ookay feigned,
i did what us aid and this whole list poped up and the files on there but how do i delete it after that???

And it also sais there is to many paremeters.

you need to type, DEL with a space between DEL and C:\ . then the path and file name ,something like
Del c:\windows\desktop\getthehelloffmycomputer.off

nope...it sais 2 many paremeters!

• Start > Run command
  
• Run the CD command till you get to the folder that has this file.
  
• Do dir
  
• Note the short file name for it
  
• Then use the DEL command on the short file name.

no i dont