file deletion

it's a folder of music i downloaded. first it had a padlock icon over the folder. i ran 'takeown' to take care of that, but i'm STILL getting "you'll need to provide administrator permission to delete this folder" um... I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR! so i click "continue", then i get "you...

I have Windows 7 Home edition on a new computer. My old drive is now configured as a USB drive. I would like to delete all unnecessary data and use it for backup. Windows 7 will not allow me to delete (or even see) all the files in the Windows XP directory, even though I am logged in as...

My system has been having a lot of problems today and, after a good two hours of trouble shooting, I finally narrowed the issue down to the Search Service, which must have gotten damaged or corrupted somehow. Here's the problems. 1. When the search service is running, IE8 and Word 2010...

Hi, ive been getting the blue screen lately and if im right i think ive located the driver responsable, its ymctidu.sys in (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ymctidu.sys) ive searched it up on google but havent found anything relating to it. ive tried deleting it and it but it said Can't read from...

How do I control how much disk space my Windows Backup takes up? I have a 1TB external disk for backups and other files. My computer's HDD only has about 250GB capacity. I don't know why my backups file got so bloated. What should I do? I see that I can delete the older backup file: 22-Oct...

I was doing a virus scan and saw there are like 20,000 files located inside the C:\$Recycle.Bin folder that were being scanned. I went to the folder to delete these files and there are no files to be found. Where is all this crap located and how do I wipe it out permanently?

I just upgraded and when dragging my different media folders to where I want them to be, it suddenly will move them somewhere else and change the name. I'm dragging a folder called music to my desktop and suddenly it copies everything in to my music in some librarys directory, and I don't want...

I dislike Internet Explorer browser. It is so slow and backwards in the world of software compared to browsers like Flock and Google Chrome which are far more advanced and better than IE. which a lot of people including my self dislike it enough to want it gone from their computer completely...

Having multiple problems im trying to resolve after installing windows 7 pro. The back story is this computer had xp on an IDE harddrive. Then i wanted to upgrade my harddrive and windows os to windows 7, so I bought a sata 1tb hdd and got win7 and installed the hdd (while still using xp) then...

I'm looking for a way to change the functionality of the single click actions for files in Windows 7. As it is now, if you click on a file, it highlights it with a faint highlight. If I click it again it attempts to rename the file. This makes it a PITA to delete files if they are...

Hello everyone, I am having issues deleting what seems to be a bad file. Last night I downloaded a licensed program file for a software called Revit from Autodesk. Essentially this is a licensed file, and it is a 3D object for an architectural model. My problem is that I cannot, delete, move...

[SOLVED] Administrator Permissions not working on Administator Account Alright, so I did some looking through similar threads but couldn't find any with this exact issue. Hopefully this is not a repeat thread, I don't think it is. SOLUTION It turns out that some of the files in the folder were...

Running Windows 7, Explorer 8, and Norton 360 v4 When trying to rename or delete files or folders, I often get Folder in Use The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program. I check the task manager and sure enough something is running. I do an...

Hey guys, Recently my wmp12 which came with win 7 is not working. i dont know what happened. if i click on a audio file which used to work with wmp12, i get this: no matter how much i click on wmp12, it doesnt respond. i switched the feature off/on and even did a system restore, but it...

How do I delete Windows 7 files/folders from an old hard disk I no longer use for booting from. I cannot delete these folders: Program Files, Program Files(x86), ProgramData, Windows. I get this error msg when I try to delete the above: "You need permission to perform this action. You require...

How to rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows 7 or Vista Manually: 1. Folder Options -> Views -> show Hidden/System files 2. C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local folder and delete the hidden IconCache.db file ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using cmd: 1. Ctr Alt Del -> Task Manager ->...

I'm running Win 7 64bit Home Premium and I have 3 problems that are driving me nuts. The First one: On one of my flash drives I suddenly have three 0 bit files showing up. No names on the files, just symbols. One is like an upside down, backward "L". The other 2 are listed with a "C" with a...

I'm running Windows 7 on a Dell Studio XPS 8000. I recently downloaded a trial version of watermarking software ("Watermark Software" was the product). I saved a trial version of the watermarked image into a desktop folder. Whenever I try to open the folder, I get a scroll bar stating that...

When I click on my personal folder icon on right side of start menu, I see a listing of all that is located in my C:/Users/Personal folder, PLUS 4 additional My Documents folders. I have my HD partitioned so my documents are on D: One of the 'My Doc' folders refers to the empty folder on my...

This program seems to have arrived with my win 7 Ultimate. Everytime I try to use my (very old MS Office) Office Enterprise tries to install itself. I'm not keen on a newer version, but I'd be prepared to let it install. Only....the install fails, saying it is missing EnterpriseWW.msi. I...