How to Delete an undeletable file

How to Delete an "Undeletable" File   Information This tutorial shows you how to delete undeletable files and folders. There are times when explorer.exe somehow locks files into place and won't allow them to be deleted. In order to delete them you must close explorer.exe and use a command prompt to delete the file. Try the utility called "unlocker" but if that wont do it try this.    Tip Be very careful when deleting files through command prompt, it's possible you could accidently delete the wrong file. 1. - Open an elevated command prompt Start > Search "cmd" > Right Click cmd.exe > Run as Administrator 2. - Leave Command prompt open; Open task manager 3. - End process "explorer.exe" 4. - Switch back to command prompt 5A. - FILE - Change to the directory of your file and delete it. First run this line: cd "PATH OF YOUR FILE" i.e. cd "%USERPROFILE%"\Downloads" Now run this line: del filename.extension i.e. del filename.mkv 5B. - FOLDER - Delete the folder. Enter Command: RD /S /Q [DRIVE:]\PATH\TO\FOLDER i.e RD /S /Q C:\Users\[username]\Downloads\FOLDERNAME 6. - Switch back to task manager 7. - Restart "explorer.exe"