If at this point, I try to delete it again, it refuses to move and stays in the folder. A bit of clarification on what happens when the exe gets "stuck": The exe looks like it deletes, then disappears, but when I close and reopen the folder, it comes back. Luckily, I had Process Monitor available. This happens with different drives on different SATA controllers and all of them are in good health.Įdit: I actually had it happen the other day. Already did a virus and spyware scan - nothing's in there. My suspicion was Microsoft Security Essentials hanging onto the exe, but even disabling that didn't work, so I'm wondering just what the heck is causing these exes to refuse to delete like that and why restarting the OS allows me to properly delete them. They happen on different drives on different folders. What puzzles me is that there is no rhyme or reason to when the OS refuses to let go of these exe files. I've had it screw up my Steam updates a few times where I ended up having to manually force the update through several restarts. It prevents certain update utilities that delete an exe and replace it with a new version of the exe from properly working. The problem is, this happens quite often and it drives me absolutely nuts. After I reboot, the OS "lets go" of the exe and allows me to delete it. Usually when I do run into this, a simple reboot of the OS does the trick (which makes Unlocker doing it on reboot pointless). I've tried using utilities like Unlocker to force the OS to let go of the exe file, but Unlocker simply says it'll try to delete the file upon reboot. exe returns, like as though nothing happened. exe disappears when I hit Shift-Del and enter, but if I refresh that folder and/or reopen that folder, the. Maybe not refuse to delete, but more along the lines of that the. exe will refuse to delete (which prevents the folder from properly deleting too). Sometimes when I delete a folder full of random files (and no, not files in the Windows folder) and one of those files is an. I've been having a really strange problem in Windows 7 that's been driving me nuts.
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