Peter,
I too have seen that case, where only afeter rebooting can I finish what I
started to do, the UAC still seams to have some control over the operation of
the OS even with it turned OFF.
I contuine to look for ways of gaining control of the Vista OS instead of
the OS controling my actions with it.
James A. Bowders
"Peter" wrote:
Quote:
> Update: Problems solved, somehow. I tried to reboot to safe mode to see if
> that would give me more options. The laptop seemed to hang up trying to load
> drivers getting into safe mode, and eventually gave up and rebooted into
> normal mode. Once that had happened, I was able to access and clear the
> files from my hard disk. Who knows why? The "shut up and reboot" solution,
> I guess.
>
> "Peter" wrote:
> Quote:
> > Background: I am running Windows Vista Business SP1, with UAC turned off.
> >
> > Problem: I have approximately 8Gb of video files that I moved to an
> > external hard disk to free up space. The files moved successfully, but a
> > copy remains on my main hard disk - and I would like to delete the copy.
> > However, these files are inaccessable. I cannot delete them or take
> > ownership of them (and I am a local administrator).
> >
> > I'm familiar with the standard method of taking ownership in Windows
> > Explorer, and I simply get an access denied error. I cannot see the current
> > security defined on the files as I do not have permission to access these
> > files. Running takeown from a command prompt also gives me an access is
> > denied error.
> >
> > Security on the files copied to the external hard disk is correct.
> >
> > I note that other people are having similar problems, e.g.:
> > http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...6205&SiteID=17 ,
> > however in my case these are not files copied from another system.
> >
> > What appears to have haapened is that the move operation did not complete
> > successfully and I am left with orphaned unmanagable files that are taking up
> > considerable hard disk space.
> >
> > Any advice appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Peter