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• Impossible to delete some files on windows vista (read-only cannot be deselected, either)

  Right... excuse me for grammar mistakes, I'm Dutch. So there you go.

  I am a user of Windows Vista on a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC. I uninstalled World of Warcraft yesterday, and there are two files that I can't remove, no matter what I try. If I want to delete them, I first get this:

  http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/483/eerstdit.PNG

  Can I get something I can't print screen for a reason, telling me to give my permission as an administrator of the laptop. What I'm doing. Then, I get this:

  http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1054/endandit.PNG

  Remains and stays and stays (you get the picture), no matter how many times I click on 'Retry '. Of course, when I press cancel, it stops completely, and the files are still there.

  == Fun facts (or something like that) =.

  http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7725/mapwb.PNG

  None of the files are marked as "read-only":

  http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6421/FileProperties.PNG

  But the plan is amrked as such... However, the name of the map can be changed. (As seen when I changed it to 'h' instead of 'World of Warcraft' to see if it would somehow effect). The names of the files, however, cannot.

  http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9439/mapproperties.PNG

  When I try to change the map to 'no read-only', simply unchecking the box and try 'apply' or 'ok', I get the same response from the computer I get when I try to delete the files: no way I'll do .

  I tried to do since the mode without failure of the laptop with the same exact results. I am the only admin on the computer (in fact, I'm the only account outside the 'guest' one) and Yes, I am enrolled in the two-person-list, who is an administrator (which is strange in itself, because, as I said, the other account should not exist even) have the files.

  Of course I can't open the files, because the programs they were running with disappeared with uninstalling WoW.

  http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5599/Openen.PNG

  And this is my story. If nobody here knows, suggestions to other places that they might know are also welcome.

  Try to use one of the following free products to remove the file/folder.  Unlocker to: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Unlocker.shtml or file Assassin http://www.malwarebytes.org/fileassassin.php (with or without forcing the deletion: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/27/force-delete-cannot-delete-locked-or-in-used-files-or-folders-with-fileassassin/). These programs often work when normal functions remove Vista not work correctly.

  If this does not work, it may be a permissions problem.  Try to give permission in their own right and also appropriate.  Here is information on how to do these two things:

  To view your permissions, right-click on the file/folder, click Properties, and check the Security tab.  Check the permissions you have by clicking on your user name (or group of users).  Here are the types of permissions, you may have: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-are-permissions.  You must be an administrator or owner to change the permissions (and sometimes, being an administrator or even an owner is not sufficient - there are ways to block access (even if a smart administrator knows these ways and can move them - but usually should not because they did not have access, usually for a very good reason).)  Here's how to change the permissions of folder under Vista: http://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-vista/set-file-folder-permissions-vista/.  To add take and the issuance of right of permissions and ownership in the right click menu (which will make it faster to get once it is configured), see the following article: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/05/21/take-and-grant-full-control-permissions-and-ownership-in-windows-7-or-vista-right-click-menu/.

  To resolve this problem with folders, appropriating the files or the drive (as an administrator) and give you all the rights.  Right-click on the folder/drive, click Properties, click the Security tab and click on advanced and then click the owner tab.  Click on edit, and then click the name of the person you want to give to the property (you may need to add if it is not there--or maybe yourself). If you want that it applies to subfolders and files in this folder/drive, then check the box to replace the owner of subcontainers and objects, and click OK.  Back and now there is a new owner for files and folders/player who can change the required permissions.  You can change now switched to read-only (even if the main folder indicates that they are always read-only - you can access yourself as the owner).  You can keep them in read-only to other users, customers and administrators even (although they can support themselves and access, if they wish, and it is really not that you can do to stop it except protect the file with a password by using a 3rd party product.)  Here is more information on the ownership of a file or a folder: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html.  To add take ownership in the menu of the right click (which will make it faster to get once it is configured), see the following article: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/.

  If this does not work, try to reinstall WOW and then uninstall it with Revo http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/revo-uninstaller/revouninstaller.html instead of using the option to uninstall Vista (Revo does a better job and can cope with these two files during the process).

  Good luck and I hope this helps!

  Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• Impossible to delete some files

  I use a HP s5310, mem 4 GB, 600 gb hd, IE8, Norton 2010.

  I have some music videos, I downloaded and are in Windows Media Player as well as users / my PC / my films.

  I tried to delete the My Movies, and he says may not - they are opened in ffmpeg.exe. Sought to ffmpeg.exe - nothing.

  In the case of Windows Media Player, right click on the video, remove, nothing happens.

  Any ideas why I can't delete my file of films or WM Player?

  boong

  Hello boonsong, you could take a look at this link and see if it has any useful information regarding your Media Player.

• Impossible to delete some files failed to click, right click or see their location.

  I found two files but I can't do anything with them. The files are named:

  1 relevantknowledge (www.relevantknowledge.com)

  2 RelevantKnowledge

  All I can do is highlight. Can't not double click, right click, copy or move them and there is no way to tell where the files are located. The first file does not all messages at all and the second file (when it is copied) %3 NULL says: OpText.

  Go safe mode does not help.

  Is there anyway to delete these files please?

  Thank you.

  Oh, yes I used use AdwCleaner. Chrome was closed 3 times while typing this should have left on the 3rd time.

  I found and deleted the files now. These programs did not help. But, they helped to find and remove other files and keys of reg I knew, I had.

  Thanks for the help.

  After searching for ages, I found the files in \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History C:\Users\ (username)

  As usual deleted history files. I did a search in the full hd. All files have disappeared.

• How can I free up space on my C drive without dumping files I need to power my computer? Windows XP 2002

  How can I free up space on my C drive without dumping files I need to power my computer? I have currently 40,4 GB used and I don't know how or what is out there that I don't need? I have a backup of system restore that takes a lot of space, but Im saying that I can not remove it by a pop-up box that says access denied even though I have since transferred it on my external backup hard drive. Can someone please help? Thank you

  {You can remove C:\{folder-name with lots of letters and numbers like this: 2b4892ncf73d63db37db37}------(these files are temporary and have been created by installers)
  C:\Temp
  C:\Documents and Settings\\temp
  C:\Documents andSettings\Temp Settings\
  C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ (all the folders inside this folder)

  To remove manually restore points, you will need to login to safe mode and change the permissions in the Security tab of the restore point. However, I do not recommend this.

  Read this article on how to remove safely restore points:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/555367

  If your computer is slow too, I can check for you and let you know what you have running, you know not everything in the background with a newspaper.

  -Alex

• Windows live mail 2012. Impossible to delete some messages from the Inbox.

  Have windows live mail 2012.

  Impossible to delete some messages. Some are in the same domain. Should be spam. The settings have not been changed.

  To solve the problem, I signed in Microsoft Outlook.com and managed to delete messages as well as notify Microsoft about junk e-mail. So far, when you use Windows live mail, I received an email from the same source as before and was able to remove it.

• How to free up space in a drive by deleting files hidden from the previous operating system?

  Original title: my vista home c drive now have very low free space.there is some files hidden from the previous operatnig system busy space that are useless.how can I delete these files?

  my laptop is slow due to the very low free space in c drive. How can I remove the unnecessary files from c drive or increase the volume of drive c?

  Download a program like TreeSize Free (http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/) to see where the files take up a lot of space.  Be aware that deleting files without knowing what you're doing can cause your system to be unable to restart or cause instability can so be sure you know that you are deleting before you start.  There is no way to extend one hard disk other than to replace it, in which case you need to copy all the files from your old drive to the new.

• free up space on my computer by deleting photos

  I want to free up space on my computer if I want to delete the photos saved on the computer

  can you me tell step by step how to do this, these are photos I have saved in the computer, originally taken from
  our camera or our ipods.

  Hello katwhitehouse,

  I guess that you have backups of these photographs? If this isn't the case, I suggest that you back up to another drive, or a DVD.

  Regarding the removal of photographs, it is a simple matter of opening the case were that the photographs are stored, by selecting each photograph, right-click on it and select delete in the menu drop-down. If you have lots of photos to remove games from the first then move to the last. Before clicking on the last of them, press the SHIFT key on your keyboard and hold it down while you click the last photo. All photography will be selected. Just a click on the selection, and in the drop-down menu, select Remove. All photographs will be then delete.

  This forum post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or the opinion of Microsoft, its employees or other MVPS.

  John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Expert associated with: Windows Expert - consumer: www.winuser.co.uk | vistasupport.mvps.org | xphelpandsupport.mvps.org | www.silversurfer-Guide.com

• Try to free up space on a hard drive in the red.

  I have Vista Home Premium.  I have a 240 GB hard drive.  A very large part is occupied by 2 files, 81,0 concert a piece.  I took a lot of photos and music out of this player and all unused programs.  These backup files is so great? I doubt I have 81,0 gig of programmes across by car.  A way to safely remove?  {The files are as follows: C:\N360_BACK\{A3BB98C1-B6DA-43C9-8ECD-4DA5BFC7A8E5}.    C:\N360_BACK\DRIVE_C.     There is also the file that appears to be a normal backup file of meg 2 named backup.@db in the same folder.   These files were created in 2007 and 2008.

  If there is no FREE program would you recommend for this type of operation?  Please notify.

  Thanks to all the help, I cleaned up my hard drive.  It turned out to be crazy backup of the two Norton became old files.

  Because you guys are frappeurs.1000 let me ask another question.  When I followed your steps above I go a step further and trying to do a disk defrag.  He would never start.  I even tried to schedule one for later, but it would never start.  I don't know if it's related but I also tried to look at all my start up programs to thin them down to the must have.  It would allow me to end with some, but not others, as the case wouldn't let me do anything.  His action as an Adminstrative thing but I am logged in as admin.   Virus, spyware, adware... etc?

• health check occurs when I try to free up space for the patition of recovery

  I have a compaq presario CQ60-215DX notebook pc. having a vista service pack 2 top home. anyone knows hot to move

  health check?

  Thanks for help.

  Karen

  This might help:

  http://www.ehow.com/how_8212724_disable-HP-health-check.html

• Time Machine - I have masses of free space, but Time Machine keeps deleting old files - why?

  Time Machine - I have masses of space free (about 2.5 TB) but time machine keeps deleting files of more than nine months. Is there a parameter limiting that I don't know?  My backup drive is a 4 start Drobo drive.  I have everything works fine except this irritating issue.  Any ideas out there?

  Hello Mike Oscar.

  I hope that I am able to help you with your concern today. If I understand you correctly, in Time Machine, files of more than 9 months are deleted. Time Machine to save space. I'm not sure if Apple is allowing us to extend this period to 12 months or even 16 months, but it would be a great recommendation. I hope I could help you with your concern.

  Best regards

  Richard

• Windows Media Player cannot perform the requested action because there is not enough storage space on your computer. Delete some unnecessary files on your hard disk, and then try again.

  The message above when retrieving a 3 TB hard drive.

  1.98 to used and 759 GB free. (Current status).

  Windows 7 operating system. Current WMP

  Any chance WMP is unable to work with more than 2 TB of drives?

  Disk Cleanup shows able to win 0 bytes.

  Hello

  Follow the suggestions below for a possible solution:

  Method 1: I suggest you to run Disk Cleanup to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space.

  Delete files using disk cleanup

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup

   

  Method 2: I suggest you to clear temporary folders and check if it helps, here are the steps:

  a. click Start, type folder in the search box and press enter.

  b. press the CTRL + A, that will select all the content and Remove it.

  Once you disable this, follow these steps:

  a. click Start, click computer.

  b. open the C drive, go to the Temp folder and delete all the content and check if it helps.

   

  Method 3: You can also run the troubleshooting Windows Media Player Settings Troubleshooter & check if the problem persists.

  Troubleshooting of Windows Media Player settings

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/open-the-Windows-Media-Player-settings-Troubleshooter

  I hope this helps. Please reply back with the State so that we can better help you.

• Is it possible to free up space on my IPhone by moving the files to JUST my icloud?

  For example, with a 16 GB IPhone 6s and I really only get about 11 GB. I had the phone for less than a month and am already low on storage. I bought 50 GB of storage icloud but do not see the point so when I delete something from my phone will remove the cloud as well. Is there a way to keep some photos/videos on JUST the cloud?

  iCloud doesn't really work like that. It's work is to synchronize them between your device and the cloud, not store them on the only cloud.

  Use Dropbox.

• Impossible to delete the files from the printer queue

  Original title: printer HP 1510

  My printer cannot print documents due to an execel document won't delete, I have asked for all documents will have to be cancelled, but it will not erase that.

  Hello

  Method 1:

  Try to follow the steps in this link and check if it helps: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-the-Printer-troubleshooter

  Method2:

  Try the following steps to delete the printer spooler and activate the spooler service and check if it helps:

  a. click Start, type "Services.msc" (without the quotation marks) in the Open box and click OK.

  b. double click on "Printer Spooler" in the Services list.

  c. click stop , and then click OK.

  d. Click Start, type "%WINDIR%\system32\spool\printers" in the opened window and delete all the files in this folder.

  e. now restart the print spooler service and check.

  Note: make sure that you have created a System Restore point before trying these steps.

• Impossible to copy some files!

  Can I copy a file in a directory. Say that the file is Borgella. The copy appears as copy of Boggs. But if I try another file (say Biggs) no copy appears. There is no warning messgae. The Bloggs and Biggs have suffixes and identical properties.

  Thanks much for that!  I found the problem. It was much simpler. It's just that I was doing the wrong way for some of the files!  I have now right click on the file (in Solution Explorer) and select "copy". Then simply not click right somehere in the list of files (which does not show of 'Paste' option). You have to click left on organize (top) and then paste is there. The file is copied, with the same file name more "-copy".