http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: (Solved) - help renaming after ALT+255 en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:36:50 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5866 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:08:39 +0000 Lighthouse 5866@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Jolly good. Have a happy new year. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5865 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:34:37 +0000 mandie622 5865@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>THANK YOU so much, the Free Commander worked.. I renamed it and then I could delete it. Thanks again. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5774 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:37:36 +0000 Lighthouse 5774@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Interesting, I just duplicated your problem. You can easily rename it and then delete from within a program called "FreeCommander" </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5769 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:13:47 +0000 Lighthouse 5769@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Is it a folder you made, or is it part of the system? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5768 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:30:44 +0000 jd2066 5768@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Did you get an error that said something like the following when you tried removing it in the command prompt?<br /> "The syntax of the command is incorrect."<br /> "The system cannot find the file specified." </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5760 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:54:55 +0000 mandie622 5760@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>well neither of those options worked. There is nothing in the folder, I just want to remove it but I can't access it from the command prompt I can get to any other folder but just not this one, even doing the alt+255 on the keypad. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5737 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:00:02 +0000 The Geek 5737@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Actually all you need to do is open a regular command prompt, and then type something similar to this, adjusting the path if necessary:</p> <p>rmdir "c:\Alt+255"</p> <p>You'll actually need to use the keypad on your keyboard to type in the 255 part of that. You also want to use the quotes there because some of the commands don't work without that. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5735 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:54:36 +0000 michael 5735@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>ALT + 255 is a hidden character and cannot be deleted by Windows Explorer. Let's just say your folder is in your C drive. To delete it do this:</p> <p>Open Start Orb<br /> Type 'cmd' (without quotes) and then (in this order) press and hold Ctrl, Shift and Enter to get the Admin prompt.</p> <p>Once there type:</p> <p>CD C:\<br /> RMDIR C:\ProtectedFolder</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-renaming-after-alt255#post-5721 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:47:49 +0000 mandie622 5721@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I reviewed the tip on how to restore folder name after using alt+255, but I can't get it to work. I want to delete the folder, or rename the folder, and can';t do either. Can someone plaese help.. thank you </p>