Maybe one of you "windows gods" can help with this.

I have a file on a Windows '98 machine that I can't delete.
When I display the folder in explorer, the file is displayed.
When I highlight the file, I can't right click on it.  When I try to 
right click it, nothing happens.  When I highlight the file and click
on the "File" pulldown menu, the menu is never displayed, the work "indents"
like it is going to show the menu, but the pulldown list never appears.
(All other files in the directory [folder] work just fine)

The file has a very long file name.  I went into DOS and did a "dir" on the
directory.  Sure enough the file is listed, but I can't delete it.  It say
the file doesn't exist.  This may be due to the long file name.  I tried to
delete the name just as listed in the "dir" command.

This file is a ".jpg" file that I started to download by accident from
WINMX.  (I intended to get the file next to it, but "fat moused" the selection)
I stopped the WINMX download, and this is what I was left with.

I have defragged the drive, scanned for viruses, restarted the PC, all to no
gain.  I suspect some sort of directory corruption, but that is merely a guess.
Anyone have any ideas?  Anyone know of a directory "repair" tools that addresses
this sort of problem??

I searched the MS knowledgebase but didn't find anything.

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