Hello,
I'm sure this question has come up before.
I just bought a new laptop with Win 7. All my external drives have many folders with strange names that I can not delete. I get an "access denied" and I can't do anything about it.
These are all under the root directory. There are so many of these "computer generated" folders that its become difficult to find the folders that I created. These folders look like "re5jkf8867jv89nu76ddr7jk87". . . just gibberish
When I hook up my external drive to my new laptop with Win 7, they all show up with a "padlock" in the folder icon and I can not delete them.
What are these files ????
Why can't I delete them ???
How important are these files ???
Why are there so many of them ???
I have been using my Win 7 laptop for about a month and I'm pretty sure Win 7 is not generating files like these.
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks
Ed
I'm sure this question has come up before.
I just bought a new laptop with Win 7. All my external drives have many folders with strange names that I can not delete. I get an "access denied" and I can't do anything about it.
These are all under the root directory. There are so many of these "computer generated" folders that its become difficult to find the folders that I created. These folders look like "re5jkf8867jv89nu76ddr7jk87". . . just gibberish
When I hook up my external drive to my new laptop with Win 7, they all show up with a "padlock" in the folder icon and I can not delete them.
What are these files ????
Why can't I delete them ???
How important are these files ???
Why are there so many of them ???
I have been using my Win 7 laptop for about a month and I'm pretty sure Win 7 is not generating files like these.
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks
Ed