Hi

Recently I downloaded a ZX Spectrum emulator, which told me to download and point to pkunzip.exe if I wanted to be able to load games without extracting from the zip file first. I wasn't able to download from the official PK Unzip site, so I got pkunzip.exe from Shareaza (28KB). It downloaded to My Documents/Downloads, but it wouldn't let me move it to the emulator folder, saying it was in use by another program, so I pointed the emulator to it where it was, and it worked fine. However I then uninstalled the emulator and I can't delete pkunzip.exe, again it says it's in use by another program. I've tried doing it in Safe Mode, same problem. I've checked my startup folder and msconfig, and there's nothing there that would be using it.

The next (similar) problem is that I went into Add/Remove and tried to uninstall Nokia PC Suite and Nokia Connectivity Driver - both seem to go through the uninstall routine then get me to restart, but when I log back in after restart, they're both still there, and still in the Add/Remove list. if I try to delete the Nokia folder manually it says PCSCM.dll is in use by another program. Again I've tried Safe Mode - it won't let me uninstall as the Windows Installer service can't be started in Safe Mode, and manually deleting gives the same PCSCM.dll error.

I've run Kaspersky Anti-Virus (up-to-date) and Panda's online virus scan, and all the usual spyware/ad-ware programs, and I use Kerio Personal Firewall.

Using XP Home SP2.

Thanks a lot.

Hi & welcome

Please use the site search, it will save you time. Answers to both your questions can be found HERE and HERE

Thanks, but as for the Nokia thing, the solution doesn't help - it says to "delete the Nokia folder manually". This is what I'm trying to do, but it won't let me due to PCSCM.dll being in use by another program.

Don't know if it's related, but I'm having other file-related troubles - if I download mirc6.16 from www.mirc.com, either using IE or Firefox, whenthe download finished it says it can't save mirc616.exe. I'm also having a lot of trouble extracting zip files, getting a lot of "error in ZIP structure" messages (rar files seem to be ok).

Also, Forcedel doesn't do anything - when I run it from a prompt and put the full path to PKUNZIP.exe, it just shows me the instructions for ForceDel (as if I have just typed forcedel.exe and left out the path), and PKUNZIP.exe remains.

Try uninstalling PKUNZIP and see whether this solves any of your saving issues.

Also download a regclean program (Regclean) this should help with deleting any corrupt registry entries.

This could be due to corrupt .zip files, if you are getting them from places like Shareaza then that could be the reason.

Alternatively you could set the .ZIP file association back to its default program, do this by opening windows explorer.
Then go to TOOLS -- FOLDER OPTIONS ---- FILE TYPES
Browse for .zip? then under "Detials for zip extension" click on change and choose "Compressed (zipped) Folders"

Thanks for the tips, but PKUNZIP isn't installed - I simply downloaded the file called "PKUNZIP.exe" and used that. It downloaded to my Downloads folder and now it can't be deleted or moved.

As for the zip files, it's mostly ones from Usenet.

Have you tried all of the above BUT in Safe Mode?