I'm an administrator on my pc but I can't delete files and it keeps on saying you need permission.

Long Silog · Aug 8, 2015

I'm kind of getting irritated and impatient. I'm deleting the windows folder from an old drive and can't seem to delete everything that the folder contains.

crinkdude · Aug 8, 2015

use hiren's boot to load a mini xp and remove it that way

mcnumpty23 · Aug 8, 2015

use this to take ownership of it--usually does the trick

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

mcnumpty23 · Aug 8, 2015

or this software achieves similar

http://filehippo.com/download_unlocker/

Long Silog · Aug 8, 2015

mcnumpty23 :

Damn that was the fastest and simplest solution ever. Thank you.

mcnumpty23 · Aug 8, 2015

Long Silog :

you are welcome

nice to get an easy solution for once

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