Cannot delete avi file

[Slyder1620]

Does anyone know of a fix for windows xp so it doesn't lock access to avi files? i've got a few that i cannot delete because windows says another program is using the file. ive closed all programs and also rebooted but it doesn't help.

[Toka]

Try this program.

http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/apps/enditall/enditall.exe

[musher70]

yes, i get a few of those, end it all works sometimes,
but not always, try an "eraser" program, try cnet.com
for file deleters...

[clonesick]

Man I know what you guys are going through. Fortunately there is a nice little registry fix. I was pulling my hair out with avi files and trying to delete them. Then I found this little fix.

Just open up your registry and manually look for this key and delete it.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32

Enjoy!
clXne

[ZippyP.]

The instructions for editing the registry as above, are here:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/100406.php

[bbb]

I encountered this once. I think it was after a system crash+reboot.

What I did was rename the capture.avi to capture. I just got rid of the avi extension. Then the file can be trashed.

[Toka]

Well if it says that "another program is using the file" then I am sure that it won't let you rename it....

[hoho]

If you have Nero installed on your system, you can delete the AVI from Nero explorer window.

[secretagent]

go to start menu (At the left bopttom of your screen) choose the run command and enter this
REGSVR32 /U SHMEDIA.DLL
and it will fix your problem. this is a bug in xp where explorer has to read the whole avi to get to the header.