Unless you are in the habit of installing programs to run from TEMP, you will be
fine deleting it all. You can always move it to the recycle bin for a couple of
days if you want before totally deleting


"bbxrider" wrote in message
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: thanks for the reply, its kind of daunting in the
: Documents and Settings\<user\Local Settings\Temp
: area with so much in there, with other apps open, i'm afraid of botching up
: some other open app
: will shut down all apps before next reboot, then delete everything there and
: then after reboot and open excel
: and see what shows up
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: "Lady Layla" wrote in message
: ...
: Find your Temp Directories -- c:\windows\temp c:\Documents and
: Settings\<user\Local Settings\Temp
: Delete all files & folders in those directories
: Restart Excel
: Open file
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: You may need to reboot if you still cant get in if all files could not be
: deleted
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: "bbxrider" wrote in message
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: : this is for excel 2000
: : excel crashed while doing some vba code testing
: : now when re-opening the sheet where crash occurred i get the file is
: already
: : open by myself,
: : read-only, notify msg
: : is there some way to reset the file lock pointers/file in use/etc
: without
: : rebooting?
: : took a quick look in registry but nothing jumped out at me
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