Can you create a temporary folder (e.g. on the desktop), and drag the troublesome EXE's to that folder? If so, then you delete them after a reboot (I hope).

No go, can't even delete in safemode 🙁 After backing up in a few weeks I'm going to format, but I'm afraid the problem will come back as I'll be transferring over the same files.

Delete your file from a command prompt with every explorer window closed.
It's a context-menu handler, that's installed with many copy-protected games, but I don't remember, what's it's name.

This thread could help you:
locked files

Thank you,
just two months ago, that I wrote this and couldn't really remember...
I hate getting older;-)

You are welcome. In fact, I had rather galneon in mind, but no words from him yet. I am curious if that info will solve his problem.

Wow, must have been the Securom. I uninstalled a Securom game the other day, the same day I magically regained control. I didn't think twice about it but it appears Securom was the problem... How annoying. Thanks for putting my curiousity to rest.

galneon wrote:

Securom was the problem... How annoying.

Yes, these stupid copy protections schemes cause many troubles. I recently found out, that my copy of Discworld Noir works fine in XP, but only with a crack. It does not work without it because of copy protection. Of course, there is no official patch from the people who sold me that product. After these bad experiences I'm not interested just in the quality, but also in a type of copy protection scheme used before I decide buying any game.

I came across this little shell extension - looks promising:

What is WhoLockMe ? (http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/)

Have you ever bored by this Windows message : "Error Deleting File or Folder, ... There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use.", when you try to delete, move or rename a file ?

WhoLockMe is a little extension for your Microsoft Explorer. It permeets you to list all the process locking your selected file.

I'm habing the exact same problems but unfortunately I haven't been able to fix mine. According to the thread linked in the post above I was supposed to run "regsvr32 cmdlineext0X.dll" with X being 2 or 3 (apparently). In any case I tried all variants (2, 3 and X) and search for the dll files as well but to no result. I'm using Windows XP with 512 MB RAM.

I downloaded the dos4gw exe files from here:
showthread.php?threadid=118&perpage=20&highli … 97&pagenumber=3.

I am trying to get System Shock to run as per the FAQ here:
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69578

Please help as soon as possible. Thanks,
Uzer