i cant delete a file from my computer?

Question

this picture file wont delete, i believe it has a virus attached to it or something, when i right click it gives me:
preview
print
import into photoshop
edit
open with
send to

edit doesnt work, and i cant delete it, any help would be appreciated

clicking on it and hitting delete doesnt work, i dont know how to convert my computer to ms-dos, shift and delete didnt work, i didnt fully understand sri's answer, if all else fails, i will donwlaod every anti virus i can get my hands on, i dont know how to use command prompt but im trying to figure it out, if i go into properties and change it off of read only then it wont work, and when i go back into read only it is as it was before, i cannot rename the file, nor in the properties does it even contain the file directory, ive tried cut and paste, it also doesnt work. any other suggestions?

correction, i cannot cut and paste, it simply will not move, its in my documents

holy cow, i cannot believe it, all i did was liturally change the file name, by hilighting both pictures , before they where completely unresponsive, i feel liek an idiot now. lol. thanks for all the help guys

Answer 1

well i know what u mean this always happens to me for no reason at all but all u have to do is create a new folder and drag that file u want to deleted inside that folder and then deleted the folder and empty out ur recycle bin..........and done the file u wanted to delete is deleted

Answer 2

If you have tried all the other ways to delete the file, and still cannot delete it, this I believe is the ultimate way to delete a file, but it is not for the novice or fainthearted. Only do this after a full virus scan as well.

Find the file, and note its directory location using Explorer.
Close all open applications, and Minimised stuff.
Open a command prompt (Dos Box)
Open Taskamanger (Ctrl/Alt/Del in XP) or Start, run, Taskmgr.exe
On the Process Tab, close the Explorer.exe application
Now in the Dos Box, navigate to where the file is, and delete it using the old DEL command.
Now in Taskmanger, click File, New Task, and enter"Explorer.exe" to start windows running again.
Close everything, and reboot, file should be gone (unless it is being created by a virus)

Answer 3

Try clicking on the file and pressing the delete key.

OR
Make sure that the file is not "Read Only" and it is not tagged as a "System" file. You can do this by right clicking and selecting "properties" if that option shows up.

Picture files do not usually have a virus attached to it, usually they are EXE files.

If this is a networked PC< there may be certain rights set by the administrator that will prevent deletions of files.

Answer 4

check if you can change the name fo the file. after changing try to delete it. Or check the properties and remove read only status.
Also you can try to cut the file and paste it in some new folder and try to delete the entire folder.
If you dont see Cut and paste options then to cut a file press CTRl X and to paste CTRL V.
I hope this will work for you.

Answer 5

When I have something like that, I turn off all applications running in the background, delete using cyberscrub professional with the folder tree option chosen.

Answer 6

Right click on that file, check whether it has any read-only attributes. Clear that check mark for read-only and try again.

Open task manager, look for any program that is using that file. End the task for that program. Re-try deletion.

Answer 7

Keep track of the file name and location and go to command prompt and see if you can locate and delete it from there

Answer 8

I've had similar problems. It took norton, spy sweeper, window washer and adware to remove it. Sometimes antivirus programs miss viruses. You can get most of these as a free trial. Just google them.

Answer 9

Just break the hard disk by that the virus entered into u r computer will automatically killed

Answer 10

Try and single click on it and then press 'shift' and ‘delete’.