Vista - File deletion

I had Vista (home premium) installed on my PC for a few months, and got
tired of it's nonsense. So I restored my XP image to my drive and life was
good again.

Then stupid me, thinking that I should give Vista another try, installed it
on a second drive in it's own partition. I figured I would let it dual boot
with
XP (pro) Of course it crashed over and over, all the error messages etc...
which I understood it needed to do until the SP1 was installed.

After spending an evening trying to get Vista to run (clean install) I
realized that the $100 I spent on it was a waste and that I should just
stick with XP, since I was
used to it's own quirkiness. SO I deleted the partition that Vista was
installed on, and life was good again. So I thought...

Anyway, this morning I see that Vista decided to install files and folders
on my other drive. I never gave it permission to do so, nor did it tell me
that it was
going to do this. But I can not delete them at all. I get the access denied
message. I've tried doing it at the command prompt using the attrib command
but
no luck. The files/folders don't take up a lot of space but I would like to
remove them. Funny thing is I've had an easier time removing viruses from my
computer than
I've had with Vista.

I suppose I can just format the drive and do another restore/rebuild
etc...and spend another afternoon putting things back to normal. It sure
isn't the easiest version
of windows that it claims to be.

But I wondered if anyone had suggestions. I also tried file unlocker,
nothing worked so far. What a pain...

This worked well...I forgot about the security things in XP Pro.

http://www.jkg.in/37-permission-deni...-in-windows-xp





"Apache -=CW=-" <Apache@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Absolutely it resolved. Thanks for your advice, sometimes you can't see the
forest through the trees

Be well


"Little Charlie" <littlecharlie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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