Problem with a corrupt .avi file

[Truman]

I downloaded <random movie> from some fin and now I cant delete it from my computer and as soon as I go into the folder where the file is or try to delete the file my computer goes berserk on me.

How do I remove it from my computer?

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[Carraya]

please no talk about infringement of copyrighted material...

[bastya_elvtars]

please no talk about infringement of copyrighted material...

He didn't talk about any exact thing, maybe it's an amateur cam one.

Anyway, what you might wanna try is:

Windows XP AVI Scanning

Found a horrible bug in Windows XP. Explorer has a feature where it scans any AVI files found in the current directory for metadata, such as height, width and length. The problem is that if there's a corrupt AVI - such as a partially downloaded file - Windows will attempt to scan the entire file by loading it into memory. You'll know this happens when you browse to a local directory and suddenly your machine grinds to a halt and starts swapping to disk like crazy (even with gobs of RAM). Luckily it's an easy fix. In the registry, navigate to the key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler

And delete the default value (which is one of those ungodly CLSID hex numbers).

Although this does lead me to wonder if someone could cook up a decent replacement that doesn't crash and can actually read the information on XVid, DivX and so on.

See this page for similar ones.

[Pothead]

deleting from Command Prompt normaly works.

[GargoyleMT]

Locked.