I have had this issue a little while, but its starting to bother me now.

For some reason, I can't delete text files off my PC. It says they are in use by another person/process

I have done all the obvious things, like run ad-aware and norton to check for anything malicious. I also booted to safe mode, and i still was not able to do it. I think maybe something in windows got screwed up. I was finally able to delete some of the text files i was trying to by booting from the XP cd, and using the recovery console to manually delete files via the command prompt.

Some I could not delete however as it would not let me navigate to the documents and settings folder from the recovery console (or i was doing it wrong)

anyway, has anyone heard of this issue? its really weird, lets say i right click on my desktop, and select new -> text document, it makes "New Text Document 1.txt" on my desktop and its highlighted to rename it. If I try to rename it, it gives me the error right away that the file is already in use. Same happens if i type text in it and try to save it.