Vista won't let me delete files and folders.

[R. C. White]

Instead of saying you tried "as mentioned earlier", please tell us, step by
step, exactly what you did and exactly what results you saw, including any
error messages.

Chances are, you don't really "have the same problem". You probably have a
problem with SOME of the same symptoms caused by something quite different
from the other poster.

Also, your posts are reaching us via "no-mx.forums.net" and "User-Agent:
vBulletin USENET gateway", rather than directly via the Microsoft public
news server, so we can't be sure that all the posts are being "slurped" from
here and relayed properly. Some of them may be arriving late or out of
sequence - or never arriving at all.

Could you please click here:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ile_management

That should start your default newsreader (probably WM or WLM), if it is not
already running; create a News Account for the MS public new server, which
is free and does not require you to log on; connect you to THIS newsgroup;
download the 300 newest messages; and display the latest post for you to
read. In other words, it should bring you right back HERE, but with a
different interface and eliminating the middleman so that we can talk more
directly. Later, if you like, you can click Newsgroups to add other NGs,
and you can click Tools | Options to customize WM/WLM in many ways to suit
your own preferences.

Then, please start a New thread with an appropriate Subject line and tell
us - from the beginning - just what your problem is. While not always
strictly necessary, it never hurts to give a brief description of your
hardware and tell us which version of Vista you are running.

Just wondering, did you run takeown with 'recursive' option?

[pkuchnicki]

I had the same problem for the longest time. Rebooting would delete files I
was being told I didn't have permissions for.

The problem seems to be that windows explorer has a lock on the file
(occasionally it may be another program, but most explorer.

I tried disabling UAC and that did not fix the problem.

I downloaded Unlocker which showed me who had a lock on the file and gives
me the option of unlocking it. Once I select, release ALL locks, I can
delete the file everytime. And it works everytime.

if you have norton systemworks you just get that to wipe everything

[Derell Finefrock]

After fighting this battle for several days with VOB type files, and stumbling onto this forum, I tried the unlocker tool suggested in a post here

Much to my surprise, the application preventing deletion of the file was a free application that came preloaded on new laptop, Google Desktop. Uninstalling Google Desktop allowed the file to delete and have not seen a recurrence of the issue.

To remove Google Desktop in Windows Vista:

1. Click the Windows Start button and click Control Panel.

2. Under Programs, click Uninstall a program.

3. Right-click the entry for Google Desktop and then click Uninstall.

4. If prompted, provide Windows permission to continue.

5. (Optional) If you're certain you won't want to use Google Desktop in the future, click to clear the Keep index in case I want to install Google Desktop again later checkbox.

6. Click Yes to begin the uninstall process.

[Conner_Sykes]

I've tried this method, it successfully fixed 63,645 files and failed at 6 of them, and I still can't delete the directory. :(