Can't delete exact.exe

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 16 Jun 2004, 17:59

Ye I have a problem. I have this prog (I guess milagros made this) which tells exact times of replays. I want to delete it, but I can't. It says something that it might be in use or something, but I think it's not. Cuz I have rebooted my comp and tried to delete it right after, but still it's not working. It sounds weird for so plz tell how I can get rid of this crappy thing

8-ball · Post by **8-ball** » 16 Jun 2004, 18:09

There was some utility downloadable for removing these kinda files... Google plis.

chux · Post by **chux** » 16 Jun 2004, 18:44

You have WinXP? If you do then Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to Processes. Look for Exact.exe and end process, now find file and delete it. Hopefully work

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16 Jun 2004, 19:22

I have win2000, I've allready tried that, but I can't see there any exact.exe running, so it won't help.... 8ball, any names for that kind of prog? Don't know what to look for...

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 16 Jun 2004, 19:24

fuck sorry I didn't know I wasn't logged in

so message above is from me.

MaZ · Post by **MaZ** » 18 Jun 2004, 08:11

Its pretty simple. I had the same problem with another file. Share the folder completely on a LAN or something and then another windows user can delete it.

dz · Post by dz » 18 Jun 2004, 08:27

Hehe, you call that simple? I don't think it's that simple if you need a working LAN network in order to do that

Here's an easy way (2k/xp), open task manager and delete all "explorer.exe" processes, after that, start a new process "cmd.exe" within the task manager and now you can manually remove exact.exe via prompt.

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 19 Jun 2004, 10:08

Dz, that didn't work if I understood it right. I checked and there was no exact.exe running, so I started a new process cmd.exe and tried to delete exact.exe but no, it still complains. Free translate from finnish:
"Cannot delete exact: yhteiskÃ¤yttÃ¶virhe.
Source- or targetfiles might be in use"

Fluff · Post by **Fluff** » 19 Jun 2004, 11:24

i did have the same problem. To solve this problem, i took one of my trojan(im a former little hacker

) and infect me. Then i delete the file that i wanted to delete with this trojan. try that it'll probably work(i've XP).

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 19 Jun 2004, 16:03

Hmm that sounds a bit risky for me to do

any other suggestions? Anyone?

John · Post by **John** » 19 Jun 2004, 17:01

paul wrote:i did have the same problem. To solve this problem, i took one of my trojan(im a former little hacker ) and infect me. Then i delete the file that i wanted to delete with this trojan. try that it'll probably work(i've XP).

better not make paul angry

*making backup of state.dat*

Zweq · Post by **Zweq** » 19 Jun 2004, 17:54

and i better zip my recs to a CD :SSSS

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 20 Jun 2004, 15:42

Guys that's not helping, I'm having a serious problem here ;/

Kopaka · Post by **Kopaka** » 20 Jun 2004, 17:30

What's the big problem, you can't delete the file and so what ? It isn't really a big file that takes alot of disc space. Just let it stay?

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 20 Jun 2004, 18:31

better take some hackerstool from some hackersite to pass the file read-only shit or whatever. (maybe http://www.govermentsecurity.org)
I dunno if that site helps, but just try.

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 20 Jun 2004, 19:49

Kopaka, I need to move files to another folder, and I don't want there to be unnecessary folders just because I can't delete some fucking stupid exe. Maybe I'll try to d-load some shiat...

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 22 Jun 2004, 17:03

wtf are you talking about

there isn't anything special in the prog that keeps beeing in memory or whatever
really can't be any problem AT ALL
i can spread sources if anybody wants
maybe some virus infected it somewhere (probably at school where i was uploading it from)

dz · Post by dz » 22 Jun 2004, 17:05

Maybe... but that happens with other files within winxp as well so it might just as well be some weird microsoft thingie...

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 23 Jun 2004, 09:52

Well any ideas then how to delete this shit, cuz I don't know any prog which would help me.

one nagual sorcerer · Post by **one nagual sorcerer** » 25 Jun 2004, 09:45

Are you sure you did what dz told?

in task manager (ctrl-alt-del window) close explorer.exe

in same task manager take file-new task and write cmd.exe , then use that prompt to delete the file. navigate to exact.exe's path and "del exact.exe" or right in the begin of dos prompt write del "C:\kulli\exact.exe" if that's the path...

if this really didn't work, try same in safe mode...

ville_j · Post by **ville_j** » 25 Jun 2004, 10:03

Ok thx to dz and others, I got it work now. I just did some stupid mistakes before