file deletion

Well, more like 2 problems only to be exact. I cannot seem to delete a movie file from my computer... or transfer it... or rename it. It is forever stuck on Imageshack - problemv Originally i couldn't even right click it but i managed to fix it using the shell ex configure. Also, my SD card...

I installed RTM (x86), and did a "fresh install". When setup was done, I went to delete Windows.old and Windows.000. Windows.000 deleted OK. Windows.old ( which has /Windows and /Program Files directories in it ) won't delete. The OS keeps telling me I need "Trusted Installer" permission to...

hi guys my problem is that my 55gb hard drive is still full (about 3 gb spare) after installing windows 7... i do a disk cleanup, then then in the pop up window it says i can save 20mb, so i click the clean system files button, and it says i can free up 35gb.. thats right 35gb...so i click ok...

Are there any apps that can provide a 'Shred' option to the right-click context menu? I'm currently using 7600 RTM build of Windows. I was using Tune-Up Utilities for this and it was very useful as I could switch deletion methods on the fly depending on how sensitive the file that I wanted to...

plsssss help me on this, i already turn off my restore point because i have a little size of hardisk. the capacity of my hardisk is 80GB but still my hardisk space decrease from 62.0GB now 61.9GB i dont want that to be happen i am very sensitive about my hardisk space because my hardisk is so...

Hi All, here goes my problem. for the last one week am trying to delete a file from my desktop in vista. But the system is not able to do that. Apparently, it shows something like ' estimating the size of the file' and goes on like that(System shows this whenever we copy/delete things) The size...

OK. So this will be a very long story so get ready. I had Win7 dual-booted with Vista Ultimate. Please note that them two operating systems did come with the computer. I had to delete my Vista partition because it had a virus. So now I am left with Win7. But now this has a virus. When my comp...

Hi All, I've come across a major problem with my windows 7 rc drive. It has been running perfectly for the last week and i've been loving the changes. Until today everything was fine, i had left my pc on to download a "linux mint" iso image whilst i was asleep. When returning to check on the...

ok, so i got a little problem or rather a worry : i had 352mb of free space and a zip file of 470+mb on the same hdd. as i didnt need some of the files in that zip, i deleted them (around 50mb). i did so directly out of winzip 10, which actually makes a new file out of the old but without...

Verzeiht, wenn ich das hier in Deutsch schreibe, aber Englich ist es mit nicht möglich. Ich möchte nur gerne meinen Groll bezüglich der Bevormundung des Users durch W7 ausdrücken. Abgesehen davon, dass nach jedem Neustart immer wieder für jedes Programm die Abfrage kommt, ob ich...

A couple days ago, I came to my computer in the morning and there was about 3 or 4 Virus Warning screens from Avast... The screens were warning me about a virus'ed file called welik.exe... As I closed those boxes (after selecting DELETE), several more would pop up.. Click DELETE and close...

I am using the Home premium edition of Vista. My computer crashed twice last fall and I had to reinstall everything. Both times it crashed a backup folder was created in my C drive. The backup folders appear to contain complete copies of everything that was on my computer C drive at the time of...

Hi All, Just wondering if anybody could lend me a hand, a while back i upgraded to windows 7 beta from windows vista ultimate. The initial upgrade installation failed and created a series of folders on my HDD with the old windows vista files backed up in them. I have removed most of these...

I installed windows 7 over an XP installation that had Windows Steady State installed on it with a 10 GB cache. Steady State is incompatible with Windows 7 so cache.wdp is installed taking up 10GB of space but I can't use Steady State to delete it. Cache.wdp only shows up when I use a disk...

Hello guys. I need some help with WMP in Windows 7. I can't for the life of me figure out how to delete files from my library. WMP recognizes that the files are no longer in the original location, I try to delete them in various ways - e.g., select them all and hit delete, right-click and hit...

For some reason, anytime I drop a file on the desktop with a .exe extension, I can no longer delete that file from the desktop. Actually...I can delete it, but as soon as I hit F5 or e.g. log off and back on, the file simply reappears. I can only delete a .exe file permanently in Safe Mode. I do...

Ive got all my music on a drive that is separate from my OS drive. I am unable (through Itunes etc) to edit or delete those music files (all the fields appear grey under "get info") . I can however delete them through windows explorer. as far as i can tell, my user account has full access to...

Hey I had a dual boot of vista on another parition that i didnt need anymore so i eraced it but I cant seem to erace about 2 gigs worth of stuff in the windows folder including the folder and program files folder no matter what I try it wont give me permission to do it, ive tried some stuff it...

I've seen users post from time to time problems concerning stubborn files not wanting to be deleted.. Here is a totally free utility that solves the problem: Link Removed - Invalid URL

Hi, I'm using win Vista Ultimate 32-bit, have problem create a new folder in snap server. When i try to create a folder, it will freeze a while and come out 100 new folders. and i can't delete a file too. anybody have the same issue? Please help. Thanks..