G'day all, Here's a blast-from-the-past question. I have a file on my Win7 Ultimate x64 filesystem called "nul". It's a hangover from installing Cygwin. But now I can't seem to delete it! In Windows Explorer, I get Ditto for CMD.EXE, DOpus V9, Take Command, and in PowerShell, I get : PS C:\Users\Pete> cd C:\cygwin\dev PS C:\cygwin\dev> dir Directory: C:\cygwin\dev Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- -a--- 1/01/1601 11:00 AM 0 nul PS C:\cygwin\dev> del nul Remove-Item : Cannot find path 'C:\cygwin\dev\nul' because it does not exist. At line:1 char:4 + del <<<< nul + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\cygwin\dev\nul:String) [Remove-Item], ItemNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand PS C:\cygwin\dev> Obviously, there are any number of high-powered tools I can use to remove the file, but I wanted to see if there's a simpler way that doesn't cause W7 to trip up over it's MSDOS heritage? Any suggestions or comments? Thanks in advance, Pete

Hey Pete, Give this a shot try opening up command prompt and insert this string, just input the appropriate directory. DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul Adam

Brilliant, Adam! That worked perfectly. Interestingly, it didn't work in Powershell, but it did in Take Command. I didn't get to check cmd.exe. Anyway, that's a terrific tool to have. Thanks very much, you made my day! -Pete