What is wrong with ...

my laptop ??

Since I have received a LOT of great help from the RHP community (thanks heaps) I would like to seek help for another problem...

As I am constantly pressured for hard-drive space, I have decided to clean out some old games/programmes/files etc. that I don't need anymore ...

Now browsing through my program files folder I discovered a folder called xerox. That, as far as my little knowledge stretches, is a company that does printers etc. ... Well I don't have a printer or any re-collection of ever contacting/downloading etc. anything from Xerox. When I looked at the folder I discovered that it was empty ...

So I deleted it ... well that was the plan ...

Despite being empty I get the message

Cannot remove folder nwwia: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again...

This is now the second time in a few days that my files/folder (even when empty) have a mind of their own and I simply don't know what to do ??

Any thoughts ?
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Okay and then (which is probably much easier) I would like to know how you put things in bold and italics here as ctrl I or ctrl B doesn't work ??


Once again, thanks a lot for all posts coming and for all the help

Regards
Boris

if the folder is emty, it takes no space.
so why do you mind having it on your computer?😕

FNM

Well I don't know how to solve it, but it has cropped up before with a lot of people. I did find a thread in another forum dealing with it. The folks there seem to have some ideas for a solution. See link:

http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread21132-1.html

Here's another thread with a similar problem. This goes into more detail about the xerox/nwwia folder and files. This might be helpful.

http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jsp?forum=10&thread=30942

I hope that helps!

Wib

Originally posted by wib
Well I don't know how to solve it, but it has cropped up before with a lot of people. I did find a thread in another forum dealing with it. The folks there seem to have some ideas for a solution. See link:

http://www.ntcompatible.com/th ...[text shortened]... /thread.jsp?forum=10&thread=30942

I hope that helps!

Wib

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1202775,00.asp


This link tells you exactly what to do if one ever has problems moving, re-naming or deleting downloaded files ...

Just thought I post that in addition to Wib's help :-)

Boris

not as good as Wib's answer, but whenever I've had trouble deleting files I simply change the file name first. Usually it's not a problem after that.