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frozenRage
February 25th, 2005, 11:37 PM
ok, has anyone tried creating a .txt file in notepad and then saving it as a .exe file and then tried to delete it? this is under xp btw. anyway, for some reason it refuses to be deleted....
idoik
February 25th, 2005, 11:43 PM
yes:) thats odd huh. even when u reboot
frozenRage
February 25th, 2005, 11:53 PM
im thinking it's some kinda glitch anyway, a freind of mine sent it to me as a joke or something and now i can't get rid of it. really really annoying. at whats worse is that you can edit it in notepad and save it but not delete it. weird...
amitgeorge
February 26th, 2005, 01:21 AM
rename ?
Digitalosophy
February 26th, 2005, 01:22 AM
haha i'm at my boy's house and i thought i'd try this.

now he is going to have test.exe on his clean desktop forever :lol:
MTsoul
February 26th, 2005, 01:25 AM
Can't you just rename it back to test.txt? I'm not going to try it. I'm afraid I won't be able to delete it :lol:
jerez_z
February 26th, 2005, 02:35 AM
uh... I just created a text file. Renamed it to stuff.exe. And it deleted fine. I'm on XP Pro
frozenRage
February 27th, 2005, 12:35 AM
... i am using xp pro and i have no other problems except this. man it is bugging me. how come it deletes for some ppl and not for others? are you guys not using sp2?
kirupa
February 27th, 2005, 12:56 AM
I tested it out also, and I had no problems deleting the EXE file. I'm on XP SP2 also. Is there some trick that you are pulling on us all haha?
B3NKobe
February 27th, 2005, 01:16 AM
Same here, I tried it and it deleted, im using XP Pro SP2 :D
Voetsjoeba
February 27th, 2005, 09:27 AM
Deleted fine here too ...
Maxtr0sity
February 27th, 2005, 09:56 AM
Deletable on XP SP1.
Coppertop
February 27th, 2005, 01:12 PM
XP Pro SP1, deletes without a hitch.

What have you done to your computer?!

then again, I'm the admin on my computer. Maybe that has something to do with it.
MTsoul
February 27th, 2005, 01:47 PM
What does exe stand for anyway? it's an application, which would be an .app :ponder:
Voetsjoeba
February 27th, 2005, 01:49 PM
What does exe stand for anyway? it's an application, which would be an .app :ponder:

executable ;):P
icio
February 27th, 2005, 02:14 PM
dammit...
frozenRage
February 27th, 2005, 03:34 PM
well, i am not playing around. i really cannot delete it. curse notepad files (.txt) and it's ability to make non-existant executables.
icio
February 27th, 2005, 04:44 PM
yeah i can't gat rid of it either. "(£$*("£$^("$%*"£$!")£(!%)(£%^)$%^*(*$(%"£%)