Windows 10: Unable to delete $WINDOWS.~BT on Windows 10 - work arounds not working

Spent most of today trying to reinstall Windows, according to Google I need to delete $WINDOWS.~BT but I always get "The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program".

I've tried adding permissions with TakeOwnershipPro, deleting all temp files with Disk Clean-up, booting into safe mode, del /f in cmd, still getting the same message.


Anything else I can try?

Thanks.

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The native "Disk Clean up" should clean up temporary Windows files. Try clicking on the Clean up system files bottom left and run as Administrator.

 

Thanks for the reply.

I figured out I wasn't able to delete it due to an update being available.

Auto update ran a few hours prior and said everything was up to date but there was one available when I checked manually.