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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Shropshire; UK
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Administrator permission query in Win7
Hi
Probably a simple solution, but help required please. I'm trying to delete a folder off my external backup drive and am getting the message that I need 'administrator permission to delete folder'. How do deal with this please, I thought as the only user I was the administrator?
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Long Island, NY
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If you haven't already, go into control panel/User Accounts/Account types/ and make yourself Administrator. I think you have to "apply" change and that it doesn't take affect until after a reboot. Despite this simple procedure, I have still been denied on occasion and it drives me nuts.
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Member (8 bit)
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Shropshire; UK
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Hi cheftec
I'm showing as administator already, but am still denied. |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ada, Michigan USA
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Hi
I use Malwarebytes anti spyware program and it has a utility that will delete locked files and folders. I have run into this too and not found a way to get Windows to let me delete the folders without using another application. No matter what I set the file settings at it still refuses to remove them. Mike |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Shropshire; UK
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Thanks for that Mike - it did the trick.
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