Get rid of the file belonging to the outdated domain account

I have a laptop that allows to have a domain account.  The account did not exist on the domain for years (and in fact, I did have access to the area for years).  On the laptop, I finally migrated the content of the domain account obsolete to a local account, then removed the domain account.  However, the domain account also has a large folder tree that resides in the root directory of the C drive.  I used a local administrator account to try to remove the folder hierarchy, but it is not allowed.  I also tried to use the unix 'chown' to Cygwin for change of recursively to the owner of the local administrator, but who also refused.  If not, how can I get rid of this folder?

FrankyMacky salvation,

We can try to take ownership and then check if you can get rid of the folder.

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