Archive for June 24th, 2008

Error message: Cannot delete file or folder

Posted by Bloggylife in troubleshooting, windows on June 24, 2008

In a win2003 file server when trying to delete a folder it gives the following error:

Cannot delete file because it’s being used by another person or program

Going to Computer Management (right click My Computer -> Manage), you can verify the status under open files and close opened sessions if necessary. But in our case nothing was there, the file wasn’t opened

That leaves it being accessed by a program, so it being a file server shared by many users, not much programs are running, so checking the anti-virus application, nothing, backup software, not running, I was looking for iexplorer.exe processes, none of that, so either I start killing windows processes randomly and hoping to find the correct one or just wait for whatever supposedly process to complete!

Through my Google-ing I found these nice free softwares which are compatible with xp, vista & 2003, unlocker and PurgeIE, they simply identify the process causing the problem and help you do the necessary action you want

When doing that using these two programs, I am still facing a problem deleting the file and both programs allow you to schedule to delete file/folder on the next reboot

After working hours, I reboot the file server and went and deleted the file … GOOD OLD MICROSOFT WAY ;)

But it was nice coming across these two softwares, unlocker is much user friendly

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Cordless & Wireless

Posted by Bloggylife in technology, thoughts on June 24, 2008

I need to include this because if I don’t my sister will be skipping this one as with all the posts marked technology ;p

You can skip this post, I just want to say that this is not geeky, wAllah, I think one who is familiar with both terms and used them will be saying the same thing

Our secretary was asking about the phones and said cordless, where in reality they aren’t cordless they are more than that they are wireless, do not emphasis much on the naming

The way the signal travels is through air, wireless, radio waves, how the device utilizes this and the naming, well one only needs to be informed

Cordless phones, instead of transmitting voice signals from the handset to the base station through wire it transmits wireless signal and for a limited range and it can only connect to that base station which connects to your home phone lines

Where as wireless, uses the known wireless technologies 802.11/mobile networks and as long as there is coverage, you are connected. So imagine if you have a wireless 802.11b/g phone and the whole building is covered you can walk around and shift from wireless range to another and still be connected to your network regardless of the base station because it only charges the battery or think of it as mobiles wherever there’s coverage of your mobile carrier you are connected. Also, more features that these types offer from transferring voice, data, sms, etc.

See the difference … does that make sense … offfff … I got that off my chest … that is to my best knowledge …am I on the right path or did I get something wrong ???

To be said frankly, the difference is becoming blurred each day as with all concepts that start quite different and slowly merge into each other …

I couldn’t keep my mouth shut, but the look I received! AHA OK … LOOOL … seriously … again this is NOT being a geek … mala sho’3ol … both of you Fatma&Rania I need to introduce you to real geeks so you know I am NORMAL …

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