Guest JamesJ Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 Why won't Vista allow me to remove a folder and a file in the folder for a program that no longer exists on my system. Vista says I need permission?! I even tried deleting it in safe mode. Any help will be appreciated James Quote
Guest Bob Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 Delete the file(s) first, then the folder. If no joy, Open an Administrator Command Prompt Type attrib -r -a -s -h del [drive] path] [filename] Press Enter. ------- Report back, please "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:e03F3CanIHA.4536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> > Why won't Vista allow me to remove a folder and a file in the folder > for a program that no longer exists on my system. > Vista says I need permission?! > I even tried deleting it in safe mode. > Any help will be appreciated > James > </span> Quote
Guest JamesJ Posted April 14, 2008 Posted April 14, 2008 Tried that. It was a folder and 1 file that was associated with an anti-virus/anitspyware software. It was under Program Files\Common Files Finally downloaded shareware and deleted it. After that I had no internet or email access. ooops!! Had to restore my system to a previous state. Should have left it well alone. Thanks for System Restore James. "Bob" <bob@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:4d-dnblXZZEHDJ_VnZ2dnUVZ_uGknZ2d@comcast.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Delete the file(s) first, then the folder. > > If no joy, > > Open an Administrator Command Prompt > Type attrib -r -a -s -h del [drive] path] [filename] Press Enter. > > ------- > Report back, please > > > "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message > news:e03F3CanIHA.4536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...<span style="color:green"> >> Why won't Vista allow me to remove a folder and a file in the folder >> for a program that no longer exists on my system. >> Vista says I need permission?! >> I even tried deleting it in safe mode. >> Any help will be appreciated >> James >></span> > </span> Quote
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