windows configuration

Annoyance

Remove files and folders

If you are trying to remove files and folders and ran into a problem -- unable to delete. It usually comes down to these potential problems: files are being used by a process, executable are running, or access permissions. Here are some commands to resolve the problems...

Reference:

• http://superuser.com/questions/914782/how-do-you-list-all-processes-on-the-command-line-in-windows

• http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/quick-tip-kill-rogue-processes-with-taskkill-in-microsoft-windows/

  List tasks

  tasklist tasklist | findstr "firefox.exe"

  Powershell

  get-process

  Kill the task -- pid(/PID), name(/IM)

  taskkill /?

  Display a shortname (DOS 8.3-format) and long name of files and folder

  And delete a folder

  dir /x rmdir /q /s