re: Deleting installation files Friday, January 12, 2007 at 5:01 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Astralan (1 messages posted) I have been able to get rid of it by becoming the owner of the folder and then adding myself to the security list with all securities enabled. On Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 4:41 pm, Liz wrote: >Can someone help me with this problem please as it is driving me crazy. I have tried >removing D:\Windows [Vista] 5 gig folder in every way imaginable but it will not >budge. >I have tried several applications that claim to remove locked files, all failed, >I have tried the recovery console, Del D:\Windows\* and I have tried changing the >attribute from read only with ATTRIB -R D:\Windows\* but I always get the same message >Access Denied. >I have tried right clicking the folder and changing the attributes from there and >I have also tried taking ownership of the folder, still no joy. > >Can anyone help me please? > >Cheers Liz Written in response to: Deleting installation files (Liz: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 4:41 pm) Responses to this message: re: Deleting installation files (Liz: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 7:06 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Deleting installation files (Liz: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 4:41 pm) Further information (Liz: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 4:51 pm) re: Further information (Michael: Thu, Jan 18, 2007, 4:04 pm) re: Deleting installation files (sean: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 5:07 pm) re: Deleting installation files (Liz: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 5:10 pm) re: Deleting installation files (sean: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 5:14 pm) re: Deleting installation files (Liz: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 5:21 pm) re: Deleting installation files (sean: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 5:24 pm) re: Deleting installation files (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 8:16 pm) re: Deleting installation files (Liz: Wed, Jan 10, 2007, 9:47 pm) re: Deleting installation files (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 7:33 am) re: Deleting installation files (Astralan: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 5:01 am) re: Deleting installation files (Liz: Tue, Jan 16, 2007, 7:06 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum