Puneet Singh writes: > I've tried cleaning up the Windows registry and that allowed me to > delete most of the files. However, some files remain (they must still > be in use)and I am also worried about any other possible side-effects. > I tried booting XP in safe mode with command prompt but still wasn't > able to delete that last set of files.
"Process Explorer" from Sysinternals can be used to find out which process has a file open (and many other interesting things). It's at sysinternals.com, now part of Microsoft but still very useful. Glad things are looking up for your installation. Cheers, ..mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/