Question about my Computer

[sense]

Alright, so i have an old folder in my computer.....And when i try to delete this folder it say's: Access denied. This folder is taking up 20GB on my computer and i'm almost out of GB space on my computer.

Does anyone have any ideas how i could fix this problem????

[p_rushing]

go into safe mode and then try deleting it

[sense]

Yea......Already tried that......didn't work.

[rubisco43]

Is there something in the folder that's running in the background? An executable, a file that's a part of a program, etc?

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[e0820]

Are you logged in as a administrator? If not log in as a administrator and then delete the folder.

Right click My Computer or Computer.. Manage.. Groups.. Check the administrators group

[Hassan Darkside]

What exactly is IN the folder? If it's system files then it won't let you delete them.

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by e0820

Are you logged in as a administrator? If not log in as a administrator and then delete the folder. Right click My Computer or Computer.. Manage.. Groups.. Check the administrators group

That may not help either. I had some folders in the shared folder that it would not let me delete despite being the administrator.
After I got my wife her laptop to match the kids...and it was only me using the PC... I deleted all other profiles but mine and then it allowed me to delete the folders then.

[Hova57]

or a virus attached its self to a file that's neccessary for a windows program. That's the problem I have now with my PC it has a virus attaced to some system 32 files and it won't let me erase them. I even identified the files and i can't erase them. so until i get my external harddrive to get stuff off my cpu i 'm stuck. I would need to reboot my computer down to the defaults and it should erase the virus associated to the files