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Very detailed and easy to follow instructions, so that you can do the same, Tom agreed, and what I found was quite an interesting problem.įirst, I'll explain what I did in simple English. As such, I asked Tom if he would like me to connect to his system using my Sometimes deleting a folder and its contents can be tricky, especially if the system keeps giving you strange error messages - just like the "The system cannot find the file specified" error. I suspected this is likely a permissions issue, essentially resulting in an 'Access Denied' error message. What do I have to do to remove the Windows.old.000 folder and its contents? "

I've tried ccleaner (crap cleaner) and check marked the 'Delete old windows installation' option (under the Advanced menu), but that doesn't work, either. I have a Windows.old.000 folder that I would like to remove, but every time I try to delete it, I get a window that says 'You need permission to perform this action' and nothing gets deleted. Never mind.I recently had to reinstall Windows and I'm trying to clean up the root directory of my C drive to keep things tidy. No just deliberately by the user some USB flash drives sometimes malfunction and.

(This one doesn't apply to you, but I include it for completeness.) The disk might be write-protected.

The file or folder name is using illegal characters, making it impossible for the file system to delete it. In addition, instead of Process Explorer and Process Hacker, you can boot your system into Repair Mode (a copy of Windows RE) and delete the file there, where the intervening app is not open! Then right-click on the process's name, select "Properties" and find the handle there. In Process Hacker, though, you must right-click and choose "Go to owning process". You can then right-click and select "Close Handle". In Process Explorer, clicking on the entry takes you to the handle.

If there are positive matches, either close the process locking the file or folder, or visit the process's entry and close the handle to the file or folder. Look for entries whose "Type" column reads "File". Type the name of the file or folder you are looking for and press Enter.

Other times, you must find out for yourself, using third-party utilities like Process Explorer and Process Hacker. (You are saying you have tried this one, so I won't elaborate.) Its NTFS permissions are preventing you.When you cannot delete a file or folder in Windows, there are usually four problems: