can't delete file
kanezfan
sunny south florida Icrontian
I downloaded this driver for my NIC and now when i try to delete it, it says some application is using it and it won't let me delete it. i tried rebooting insafe mode to rename the file but it won't let me. how can I tell which app is using this file so I can delete it?
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When deleted, rebuild networking or see if XP manages to rebuild and roll the driver back for you. If it is a true driver, network services are trying to use card lots of the time.... Trick is to first convince O\S that thing cannot be used, then to remove, then to install another driver and rebuild networking, with a NIC driver. AV, Firewall, all sorts of things including about 1\3-half of XP's services can indirectly hook to the NIC driver
With Windows 9X I sometimes had to take it into Safe Mode, get into device manager, then tell 98 to remove the driver, then restart. Sometimes 98 would, "unahppily for the tech," proceed to try to reinstall the SAME broken NIC driver as it came back up.
Similar thing with XP, except its easier to get XP to autoroll drivers back sometimes-- ESPECIALLY with networking. XP was tuned to recover networking itself as much as possible.
The ONLY MAJOR downside to this is if you get a trojan or hybrid viral thing registered as a network using system process, guess what XP also protects in some cases??? Yup, the trojan. Safe mode without networking deactivates the trojans hooks long enough to remove it, with XP-- by not running networking at all, nor processes that XP thinks depend on networking. A present viral thing, Friewall running, can alos take a good driver and block full install of it, BTW. So, if Kanez has issues after driver removal and no good stable recovery of networking after that, do a full security scan and junk\trash\hijack\adware removal thing-- in safe mode, please.