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Re: [Off Topic] Ricardo Forno's request

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Sep 29, 2002
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Hello Euler and Ricardo,

I was looking after a way to delete files locked by windows ('index.dat'
files, e.g. in the 'cookies' folder), and Ricardo and I had a little
discussion about that. Euler, maybe that's what you remember?

Ricardo wrote:

>> Not very important for me now, but anyway I'm interested.
>> Every bit of knowledge is important 

ACK. 

Euler wrote:

> There's an app called CopyLock that do exactly this. You can get it at
> http://www.noeld.com/download/copylock.zip or see some comments at
> http://www.noeld.com/dlmisc.htm#CopyLock. No reference to source code
> but Noël Danjou seems to be a nice person.

> Good luck!

'CopyLock' needs to reboot the computer. I was looking after a way to
delete files locked by windows *without* the need to reboot the
computer -- maybe impossible ... 

Fortunately, it was very easy to convert my windows Eu program to a DOS
Eu program. This program is now called in 'autoexec.bat', that is before
windows starts, and so it can delete the required files.

Anyway, thanks for your attentiveness!

> --Euler

Regards,
   Juergen