Re: Cannot kill folders



HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:959BBC0D-504A-4CD0-9DAC-920BEA7BA3C2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Dan <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
I had to perform a reinstall of Windows XP Home, and had to go through the
process of reinstalling all my programs. All folders show up with the
read only check box grayed out, but checked. Everything works fine,
except here is one folder I cannot access or delete. It holds some games
I had installed and occupies over a gig of hdd space. The subfolders,
however, show up as 0 file size. The files are still in there, I just
can't access them or delete them.

I have spent two days going all over the support center, but can't seem to
find anything that works. I have tried CMD, attrib -r, at least 20 times.
No luck.

Can someone please help me get access to these, or at least get them
deleted?

thx

.



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