buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 omfg.... i was testing my own program on my comp .... and it copies itself to c:\windows\ sytstem32\krnl387.exe ... and rights stuff to registry to boot on startup .. well now ... ITS ALL GONE HORRIBLY WRONG ... and i cant delete it ... it says it is in use ... i boot up in safe mode ... check task manager ... theres is like 5 processes running .. eg .. svchost.exe .. csrss.exe etc.... i try delete and it STILL says it is in use.... i think i remember when i first started posting .. seeing a script that tells you what program another program is in use by ... i was hopeing to find this script so that i could use it on my program and FIND WHAT THE HELL IS STOPPING ME FROM DELETING IT .... if anyone knows PLEASE post .. cause i dont want to get another harddrive with an os on it and boot this one up as a slave just to delete ... plz if anyone knows i would REALLY appreciate it .. thx qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapowdude Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 ok what you need to do is calm down 1 what does this script do to your computer? nothing.. then just leave it 2 try creating a script to end you script 0.o 3 system restore is your using windows xp... 4 if it doesnt work your screwed!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 (edited) Just use recovery console, and see if you can delete it. Or a BartPE disk may do the job as well. Edit: Task Manager should kill it anyway. Then delete it. Edited February 1, 2005 by MHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 (edited) omg i just stuffed my post u p wat is recovery console and it doesnt appear in task manager .... the program isnt runnig but it sez it is in use my another program i tried system restore and it failed Edited February 1, 2005 by burrup qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 yes very ironic ..NOT.... this doesnt do anything malicious ... all i want is help .. qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valik Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Not malicious? Apparently it has a life of its own if it's gone astray and making the author all freaked out. That's pretty darn malicious if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 not really .. lol ... i just dont like programs running that dont need to be .. qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 explorer is probably using it. If so, just open a command window, shutdown explorer, then delete the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 thankyou i will try that... u seem to be the only one helping .. qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapowdude Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 when you checked out the taskmanager did you go to processes in the top tabs go look there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 is the program is actually running ... it is in use by another one qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roboz Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Hi, I had a similar problem once with a file which I couldn't delete because it was used by some strange process. I managed to figure out which one it was with the help of Process Explorer (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml). That way I could kill the process and delete the file. Just like you I tried really everyhting else before that with no luck. Hope this helps Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 (edited) I GOT IT YAY >!!!! i made a script ProcessClose("explorer.exe") Sleep(5000) FileDelete ("C:\WINDOWS\system32\krnl387.exe") ran it .. and its gone ... anyone have any ideas y it is in use by explorer.exe? edit : thanks everyone for the people that DID help .. and ty for that link .. i am dloading it as we speak Edited February 1, 2005 by burrup qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapowdude Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 i don't know check your script Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz44 Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 all the script does is copy itself to system 32 .. write reg entry to boot on startup and delete the original file . qq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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