I've been making some extra space on my Windows laptop. Ran into an interesting problem while deleting some now-backed-up video files. An error window saying (approximately) "Can not delete file.avi. It's being used by another person or program."
The problem is shmedia.dll, which is apparently used by the system to read properties of AVI files. You can unload shmedia.dll by using the command
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
in a Command Prompt window, and reload it by using
regsvr32 shmedia.dll
In between, you can delete AVI files.
This is great mate, i've been looking for a solution like this. All the other techies made me download *.reg entries, or mess with the registry myself. This is perfect. Bravo.
Posted by: Osy | 2004.10.23 at 04:28 PM
Thanx, this help me with a .avi-file I didn't manage to delete. For sure the easiest way to do this.
Posted by: mantra17 | 2005.06.16 at 10:36 AM