diff --git a/dlls/kernel32/file.c b/dlls/kernel32/file.c
index a8b6d308ce1..adbc69d1984 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel32/file.c
+++ b/dlls/kernel32/file.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright 1993 John Burton
  * Copyright 1996, 2004 Alexandre Julliard
+ * Copyright 2008 Jeff Zaroyko
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -1528,6 +1529,8 @@ BOOL WINAPI DeleteFileW( LPCWSTR path )
     UNICODE_STRING nameW;
     OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES attr;
     NTSTATUS status;
+    HANDLE hFile;
+    IO_STATUS_BLOCK io;
 
     TRACE("%s\n", debugstr_w(path) );
 
@@ -1544,7 +1547,12 @@ BOOL WINAPI DeleteFileW( LPCWSTR path )
     attr.SecurityDescriptor = NULL;
     attr.SecurityQualityOfService = NULL;
 
-    status = NtDeleteFile(&attr);
+    status = NtCreateFile(&hFile, GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE | DELETE,
+			  &attr, &io, NULL, 0,
+			  FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE,
+			  FILE_OPEN, FILE_DELETE_ON_CLOSE | FILE_NON_DIRECTORY_FILE, NULL, 0);
+    if (status == STATUS_SUCCESS) status = NtClose(hFile);
+
     RtlFreeUnicodeString( &nameW );
     if (status)
     {
diff --git a/dlls/kernel32/tests/file.c b/dlls/kernel32/tests/file.c
index 06f4caa221e..1686a4a82c9 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel32/tests/file.c
+++ b/dlls/kernel32/tests/file.c
@@ -871,9 +871,9 @@ static void test_DeleteFileW( void )
     ret = CreateDirectoryW(pathW, NULL);
     ok(ret == TRUE, "couldn't create directory deletefile\n");
     ret = DeleteFileW(pathW);
-    todo_wine ok(ret == FALSE, "DeleteFile should fail for empty directories\n");
+    ok(ret == FALSE, "DeleteFile should fail for empty directories\n");
     ret = RemoveDirectoryW(pathW);
-    todo_wine ok(ret == TRUE, "expected to remove directory deletefile\n");
+    ok(ret == TRUE, "expected to remove directory deletefile\n");
 
     /* test DeleteFile on non-empty directory */
     ret = CreateDirectoryW(pathW, NULL);
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ static void test_DeleteFileW( void )
     ret = CreateDirectoryW(pathsubW, NULL);
     ok(ret == TRUE, "couldn't create directory deletefile\\sub\n");
     ret = DeleteFileW(pathW);
-    todo_wine ok(ret == FALSE, "DeleteFile should fail for non-empty directories\n");
+    ok(ret == FALSE, "DeleteFile should fail for non-empty directories\n");
     ret = RemoveDirectoryW(pathsubW);
     ok(ret == TRUE, "expected to remove directory deletefile\\sub\n");
     ret = RemoveDirectoryW(pathW);
diff --git a/dlls/msvcrt/tests/file.c b/dlls/msvcrt/tests/file.c
index 97f9646ffda..36fcc8001b8 100644
--- a/dlls/msvcrt/tests/file.c
+++ b/dlls/msvcrt/tests/file.c
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ static void test_unlink(void)
     ok(file != NULL, "unable to create test file\n");
     if(file)
       fclose(file);
-    todo_wine ok(_unlink("test_unlink") != 0, "unlinking a non-empty directory must fail\n");
+    ok(_unlink("test_unlink") != 0, "unlinking a non-empty directory must fail\n");
     unlink("test_unlink\\empty");
     rmdir("test_unlink");
 }