Hello, I hate to create a thread about this but nothing I’m doing is working, I have an exe, and whenever i click on it, it gives me an error message which is below, Im an administrator on my computer, and I’ve disabled Avast antivirus trying to get it to work, but nothing. Any suggestions? I’m running Windows 7 64bit Ultimate.
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Which file are you trying to delete?
is it some kind of windows file you’re not supposed to open? i don’t have any idea why you cannot access it.
anyway have you tried the console?
press start and search for “cmd”. if i remember correctly you might be able to open it via the “start” command(syntax: start Location\file.exe). If you just want to delete it “del” is the command for you to go. In Win XP you could workaround things with this. I don’t know if it’s still possible.
Run as… Administrator. You need to have the password set (i.e. not blank). If it’s blank you can set it via cmd (google the command).
I don’t know shit about Win7, this is what I’d do on XP 
I’m trying to run a keygen, not a windows file, and I’ll try the command prompt idea
Edit: Tried the command prompt and it says “access denied”
maybe it’s a virus, pretending you cannot open it while it actually already screws with your pc.(worst case)
i havent ever run across anything windows wouldnt let me open if i really wanted. try searching the scene-forums for similar problems :o
Chances are the antivirus or windows’ anti-spyware blocked the file completely before you disabled it.
You can try copying it elsewhere and running it again.
Only if you trust the exe, of course…
probably has spyware, if you run it through virustotal.com and it finds nothing, try the “take ownership” trick (google it!)
lolz
Edit: I’ve figured out the problem, I had avg a while back and replaced it with avast, but it was apparently still installed, i gave it an exception in it and it worked, thanks for your help guys.
ah yes, AVG, last time I almost punched someone in the face for touching my computer was after my friend plugged in a flash drive with the autorun.inf worm and then tried to remove it by installing AVG, which failed, but it broke 3 of my cracked programs and erased half of my tech demo archive due to the compression method they use
never use avg, it’s worse than Panda antivirus
Never had issues with AVG, personally…
@sersoft Disable auto-run. Will stop all of those viruses.
The first thing I did once I started writing those types of programs. U3 was one of the best things to happen to flash drives ever What I miss most about XP.
The kind of autorun worm that was installed would still run if you had autorun disabled, fortunately it’s only able to work on XP.
ah yes, that one. Would run unsigned code during the initial device scan using a buffer overflow. Windows has released a patch for that one. In fact it was one of the last patches windows released for XP.
I replaced AVG with Avast. AVG was slowing my computer down to hell, nevert found anything and was just useless. Ever since using Avast (apart from the automatic updates which I then turned off after they lagged my interwebs every 3 seconds) my computer has been faster and avast is just generally better.
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