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Re: Flag a file to be deleted

• Posted by CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net> Nov 13, 2004
• 490 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> Eucoder wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Hi Chris,
> > Thanks for the response!
> > The problem with that is the file will be locked before my program runs.
> > There is a way to have Windows delete a file when booting up, but I am not
> > sure how to do it on a WinXP/2000 machine. On Win 95/98/ME you could use
> > WININIT.ini to do it.
> 
> I use a DOS program for this purpose, that is started by AUTOEXEC.BAT.
> Works fine on Windows 98, but unfortunately I can't tell about Win
> 2000/XP.
2K/XP ignore autoecxec.bat (which I used). You can configure
it to scan for SET commands, but that would be of no use...
Now I just delete files like that manually, using either
the Win XP repair CD or Knoppix if the drive isn't NTFS(Does
the newer version support NTFS? Maby I should upgrade...).

> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
> 
>