I got a book on C++ that came with a free borland compiler. The book only talks about C++ and not how to use your compiler, and clearly I've been doing some naughty stuff, not knowing how to use it.

First, lately programs I've writen are begining to behave irrationally. Secondly, "new console app's" I've created, as well as projectors and files, seem to be building up like crazy! I used file search to find files or folders and I found dozens and dozens of .cpp files I wrote, the same file appearing multiple times in the list, also dozens of console app's have accumulated and my computer won't let me delete them!

I'm completely lost.

I program some and used the Borland compiler in java. I have never seen that problem before. Are you sure you dont have a virus that may be causing this? Might try uninstalling an reinstalling Borland if you dont think it is a virus.

Yeah I tried uninstalling but that doesn't remove saved files. So basicly nothing changes once its reinstalled.

Slightly old thread so don't know if you've fixed this or not yet, but what error do you get when you try and delete these files and secondly where abouts are these duplicate files as they can't be in the same directory obviously. Are you sure they are duplicates, and not shortcuts (.lnk files) or object files (.obj) or some of the other files c creates when you compile?

Well it seems the particular error only occured in one program so I must have done a serious no no somewhere.

But the unable to delete problem still exists. When you click the "new" button you can create a new project or a new source file. I often clicked "new console app" to make a new project everyime I wrote a program. Now I know a bit better and keep all my files in the same project but I can't get rid of the new "console app's" I created. I have consoleapp1, consoleapp2, consoleapp3 all the way to like 19, and I can't delete any. It simply says "cannot delete consoleapp2".

Are you trying to delete them through the Borland ide or do you get that message when you try and delete them in windows?

In both.