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Problems deleting files/folders
Hi folks
Hoping you can help with what I feels like a simple problem, but very frustrating.
the problem exists around deleting folders succession; I'm cleaning up my music collection, so I'm deleting folders containing MP3 files. I delete the first folder no issue, but I try to delete the next and get the error "the action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program". However if I leave it five minutes then I can delete that second folder, but if I try to delete a third the problem occurs till another five minutes .... and on and on. on some occasions I have been able to delete two folders in succession but never more.
I have tried starting in safe mode, suspending windows indexing and stopping processes in succession - no luck so far.
I contacted Dell support who were very confident it was a virus and if I paid the warranty charge they could definitely fix it, but I felt a little suspect about this. Never the less I have run AVG scan on the PC and anti-spyware for good measure. Again no solution.
I am running windows seven on a dell studio 15.