To Joe Grover & Poprivet:

Thank you so much for the help. I tried the suggestions from both of you
and, I'm happy to say, they both worked. Plus, I got two other suggestions
from a friend of mine and they both worked also. So now I have a whole
arsenal of ways to get rid of those files. Thanks again. You two were great.

"Tafeille" wrote:

> I have XP Home Edition. Virus recently messed everything up. Before getting
> fixed want to delete files no longer needed but cannot get to Programs or
> Desktop while in safe mode. Can get to C prompt and DOS. I deleted files with
> short names but can't delete ones with more than 8 characters. Is there a way
> to delete the long-lettered files using DOS? I don't want to delete whole
> subdirectories, just particular files in them. Thanks.