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Friday, May 30, 2014

Could not find this item in Windows 7

Recently, I was trying to delete a file in my laptop (has Windows 7) which threw an error as "Could not find this item" and was not deleting that file at all. After searching for sometime, I finally found a solution which helped me in deleting the file. Here is the solution: 1) Open a Command Prompt. 2) Browse to the folder containing the buggy file. 3) Type 'dir /x' to obtain the 8.3 formatted filename. 4) Delete the file using the 8.3 filename, e.g. 'del 0WELCO~1' (as shown below) Hope...
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