please note there is a new tool in town to do this and I have covered it here http://windowsdiagnosistips.blogspot.com/2011/09/remove-locked-files-easy-way.html
This has been left for referance only or if the other way fails to work!
Sometimes you will come across a file that you can't move or delete because it is always in use.
To get around this is to have Windows delete or move it on start up, before the system is running and the file is back in use again.
How can you tell do this? simple, a free tool from Microsoft. a tool called MoveFile, it is called from the command line:
movefile c:\folder\file.txt "" ensure the quote marks are not missing else it will not work.
Now Windows will quietly remove it during the next reboot.
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