This is a strange one...

I have a seemingly random named file on my desktop that I can not delete:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Abba\Desktop\CAU54J6H."
Size: 0 bytes
Size on disk: 0 bytes

I have had problems where deleting a file can be tough (typically viruses, spyware, corruption issues on friends/relatives PC's). Typically I go from trying in safe mode, then recovery console, and at worst booting from a different O/S accessing the drive with the file and deleting that way.

I have tried all of these:

Safe Mode = "Cannot delete file. Cannot read from the source file or disk"

Recovery Console = "Access Denied" .. which I assume is because it is not in the \windows dir. I can see the file there though.

Boot from a different OS installed on a different HDD: = "Cannot delete file. Cannot read from the source file or disk" - this attempt tells me that it is not virus related at least, and has to be some type of disk corruption issue.

I did a chkdsk and defrag... still no luck. At this point I would normally just live with the file existing, but in this case it is on my desktop which makes it annoying.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - If screen caps of anything would help, let me know and I can put at a URL and post the location.

Thanks!

Try this:

http://www.jrtwine.com/Products/DelF...lesInstall.zip