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Use DelinvFile utility to delete invalid files and folders

Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor
05.09.2007
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I was recently asked to help clean up a computer that had been hacked. There were now a number of files that could not be deleted since the file names had been damaged in such a way that they could not be conventionally manipulated. This prompted me to search for a solution that could be applied elsewhere, and I found one: DelinvFile.

The DelinvFile utility is written by the creators of the PurgeIE tool, and offers four possible methods to remove an offending file or folder from your system:

Note: The free, unregistered version of the program can o

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nly be used to delete files and folders (which covers the vast majority of what you might need the utility for). The full version is available for $17.95.

About the author:
Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Insight, (formerly the Windows Power Users Newsletter), a blog site devoted to hints, tips, tricks and news for users and administrators of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista. He has more than 12 years of Windows experience under his belt, and contributes regularly to SearchWinComputing.com and SearchSQLServer.com.

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