Dude, you guys absolutely lz0x0lz....

thank-you for passing on the xp/reg info to the world. I found your forums by googling my problem and you guys were #1 on the list... For months and months... every since I started using XP at work (cough and downloading .avi on our servers cough)... I've been trying to figure out wtf is causing XP to tell me "access denied"... EVEN AFTER closing nearly EVERYTHING on taskmanager...

I am a Unix, Linux, BeOS "power"~user... p.s. XP TOO MANY PROBLEMS (cough microsoft sux cough)...

Thanx for the post, and the insightful comments (well most of them were helpful anyway)... still dont understand how you can "change the file ext. and delete the .avi" if "ACCESS IS DENIED" or can't really see how "XP's DOS would let you delete it", since xp uses "fake" DOS, a program that XP emulates to look like "real" DOS v6.x, but still runs on the win2k kernal. However I didn't actually try those steps, myself, so im not calling anyone a liar I just edited regedit.exe and it worked file for me, once you guys told me what the problem was anywayz...

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