Comments on: Delete Undeletable Files in Windows Vista

By: William Wilson

William Wilson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:28:26 +0000

This for me was a life safer also. Not sure why MicroSoft makes our lives so hard.

Thanks a million is not even good enough
Bill

By: bobby

bobby — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:39:23 +0000

This method worked for me..Care should be taken not to close the task manager till end… Kill process explorer.exe in task manager, then give cmd in new task to get command prompt running, go to desired file and delete the file. Now that the file is deleted, explorer should be given in New task in task manager to come back to the initial stage with file deleted.. ..

By: DL

DL — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:17:12 +0000

I followed the instructions but still could not delete the directory. It was created by Maxtor’s ont-touch back up system under Windows XP. I now run Windows VISTA. It appeared that there was a file called “Thumbs.db” in a subdirectory that would not delete.

In the end, I moved my drive back to my old XP Machine. Initially it would not delete. Then I used the “cut” instruction, followed by delete, and the file went away – finally!!

I hope this helps someone else.

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By: chester

chester — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:57:41 +0000

thank you vey much.. whoa!!! your’e a god!! i have deleted those files i cant delete.. once again.. thanks!!

By: A

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:12:16 +0000

works great

By: Gunjan

Gunjan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:44:16 +0000

THANK U IT WORKED
Vista is painful, but some how 4 GB is free.
NOTE : Replace by your username: like I replaced it by in the Command 2

takeown /f directory_name /r /d y
icacls directory_name /grant Gunjan:F /t

Thanks

By: RedFish

RedFish — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:55:01 +0000

Thanks a lot! )

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By: Ariel

Ariel — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:51:30 +0000

it saves lifes in windows 7 too! ))

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:21:59 +0000

I tried the method you mentioned to delete a file that does not want to get deleted. but I always get the message “file no longer located in **** verify and try again”. I even tried doing it in safe mode nothing.

any other suggestions

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:40:35 +0000

It worked amazingly.

I was stuck until I saw Rob:
“Make sure you check the task manager to be sure the file isnt running before trying to delete it. If it is, there is no way to delete it till u stop the process.”

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:31:53 +0000

I’ve tried the command prompt method AND rebooting in safe mode to delete my windows.old files and it STILL isn’t working. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

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By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:09:30 +0000

Make sure you check the task manager to be sure the file isnt running before trying to delete it. If it is, there is no way to delete it till u stop the process.