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The .DB files can not be deleted?

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Old 08-26-2008   #1 (permalink)
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The .DB files can not be deleted?

I want to delete the *.db files located on "C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer", i have take owner the permission, but unable to delete them, why? thank you.

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Old 08-26-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Re: The .DB files can not be deleted?

Deleting the files manually may not work. Use Disk Cleanup (Cleanmgr.exe) to
clear the Thumbnail cache store. See:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

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> permission, but unable to delete them, why? thank you.
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Re: The .DB files can not be deleted?

Why the software CCleaner can do it? thank you.
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Old 08-27-2008   #4 (permalink)
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"yxq" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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> I want to delete the *.db files located on "C:\Users\User
> Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer", i have take owner the
> permission, but unable to delete them, why? thank you.
>
You go to the folder off of Explore and to Properties, and with the Security
tab enabled on the folder, you add your logged in user account to the folder
and set permissions for your logged in account to Full permissions. You will
be able to delete the files.

If you don't see the Security Tab, then find out how to disable Simple File
Sharing, that will expose the Security tab.

If you are user/admin on the computer, then is some cases, Vista will not
let you delete, because it is looking at your account as user, and it is
looking at your account as admin (user/admin). You don't have Full rights as
user/admin on Vista like you have on XP.

If you are user/admin, then Vista is looking at your combined rights. Admin
has Full permissions for your logged in user/admin account, but yxq *user*,
if you are logging in with yxq as user/admin, is not an account that's on
the folder or file. So in that case, user yxq doesn't have the rights.

There is another account that is on all folders or files if you look at it
via the Security tab called Users (machinename\users), and you will see
that it doesn't have Full rights, and in particular, it doesn't have Delete
permissions. Vista and NTFS are defaulting to the USERs group and is
applying those rights to the combined rights of user/admin, if it doesn't
see the *yxq* user account.

Vista and NTFS are going to stop you as user/admin from deleting, because
you are part of that Users group as user/admin, and you have a conflict been
your Administrators and User rights. You don't want to give Users
(machinename\users) Full rights, because anyone that logs into the machine
as a *user* will have Full rights, and you don't want that.

What you'll want to do is add *xyq* to the folder or file which will equate
to xyq (machinename\xyq) and give the *xyq* account Full rights like
Administrators (machinename\administrators) then you will have full rights
as *User* too or user/admin will have Full rights in both groups.



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Re: The .DB files can not be deleted?

I have gotten the full permission, and used attrib command to remove all the properties, unable to delete them yet. note the OS is Windows Vista SP1, could you please try it yourself? i guess there are some processes taking the files. thank you.
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