well i dl'ed a windows media file from limewire...ive read many message boards and took all their suggestions but none worked from me....it should be a wmv file but wont play and shows up as 0 bytes...i tried safe mode...command from start run...eraser and hjack this...also antivirus..but eraser said nothing to delete yet it's still on there....the error message displayed shows it as cannot find specified file make sure you have the correct file or path.....if anyone has any suggestions they would greatly be appreciated...someone said it might be spyware but spybot doesnt detect it
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Jump to PostHave you tried closing down all the Limeware processes? Is limewire running, possibly in the background? I don't use LW but if it was still trying to d/l the file and not making any progress the 0 bytes thing would make more sense and also why you couldn't delete it. …
Jump to PostSee if you can delete it from the command prompt. Start-->Run-->cmd then click OK
At this point you'll be in the command prompt, probably at your profile path so type cd \ which brings you to the root of C: at which point you can use the cd command to …
Jump to PostI've seen this before, with the long name thing...is this Windows 2000? You should try to rename the file to something shorter and then try to delete it. If that doesn't work then move the folder where the file resides to c:\ and then try to delete it...you could recreate …
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