I'm running Windows XP home edition. Yesterday someone told me that I could sample a very large RAR avi movie by just downloading the first RAR file (as opposed to downloading all twenty or thirty of them.) Well, I tried and it really messed things up.
In Windows Explorer, it shows (in my self created folder called 'assorted downloads') that I have an avi file titled "unknown 13.avi" that is allegedly a whopping 1.3 GIGS. It could not possibly be that large because I only downloaded the first RAR file and that took only about 45 seconds on my cable modem. In any case, I cannot now delete it. I don't care about playing it. I just want it gone. When I try to delete, it says: "ERROR DELETING FILE OR FOLDER Close any programs that might be using the file and try again." I've tried cold re-booting. I deleted that avi from Windows Media Player library, but still cannot delete it off the hard drive. I also tried 'moving' it to an external hard drive, but same ERROR message. My computer thinks that the file is really 1.3 gigs and I need
that space, otherwise, I would just leave it there for eternity. Help, please.Optional Information: OS: Windows XP; Browser: IE I also went and re-configured the recycle bin so as not to send any deletions through it. In other words, something deleted will now NOT be stored in the recyle bin.

Edited by Customer (name blocked for privacy) on March 4 2006 at 4:12 PM