Help Explorer does not work - how can I circumnavigate it?

All the anti virus, spykiller, malware removal software appears to use Windows Explorer to run, This crashes, I need to remove a folder and all its subs. How please! Thanks Pete,

Help Explorer does not work - how can I circumnavigate it?norton

One thing which you can do is to start the PC in safe mode, by repeatedly pressing F8 when on the BIOS startup screen (it will either have a logo of your PC / motherboard manufacturer or a count of how much RAM you have).

When pressing F8, you will be presented with a menu. If you're using Windows XP / 2000, choose "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" or, with Windows 9x, choose Safe Mode Command Prompt".

What you need to do next depends, once again on your operating system.

Windows 9x / Me

From the command prompt, type in the following:

DELTREE "path"

But, replace "path" with the actual folder that you wish to delete so, for instance, if you wanted to delete "Activision" from the "Program Files" folder, on the C: drive, you could do the following:

DELTREE "C:\Program Files\Activision"

Make sure you DO put the quotes in, otherwise DOS will complain about the spaces in filenames.

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

The command from the prompt to delete a folder (and subfolders) is: