I have a folder on my desktop called con. 15/02/2016  11:29    &lt;DIR&gt;          con  I cannot open it  I have tried the following  run cmd as administrator kill explorer.exe rmdir con   C:\Users\sean\Desktop&gt;rmdir con /s con, Are you sure (Y/N)? Y Access is denied.   Set the security settings   The only option remaining that I have seen is to use a gparted on a linux distribution. However, there must be a way to do it in windows? Does anyone know why this is happening and how to delete an unopenable and undeletable folder in Winodws 10?
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I have a movie named Con Man. Apparently, in Windows, you cannot have a file name with the name CON in it.  Can anyone please help me delete it?  It is stored in F:\Movies\Con Man The name of the file that I want to delete is Con.Man.2018.720p.WEBRip.x264-[YTS.AM]  I know there are a lot of similar issues but I am not able to apply them that is why posting here.  Thankyou  PS :: I am a noob!  Edit: Found this on the internet but cant work it out
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I have two Windows 7, one in drive C and other in drive D. I use the one in drive D. I want to remove the one present in drive C, to find more free disk space.   But I cannot delete the Windows folder present in drive C. It says you need permission something. Also when my computer starts it asks me which OS I want to use, the two OS names are the same "Windows 7". I chose the upper one, this is the one present in Drive D. However when  I choose the other one that does not run, computer restarts after sometime before logging in. This is because I have deleted everything associated with the previous Windows, except the Windows folder. Because I can not delete it.   How can I delete this Windows folder present in drive C, which I cannot use ( and I don't want to use). Please tell me the simple way, ASAP.
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I can copy, move, create, and delete them. I can rename them using the REN command from a command prompt. I cannot rename folders through Windows Explorer anywhere on my machine, including on other drives.   When I try to do so, I receive an error titled "Rename Folder" that says "Can't find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." Then when I click Try Again or Cancel, I get another error titled "Rename" that says "The file or folder does not exist."  As far as I can tell, nothing else is wrong with my computer, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix this problem. I don't know for sure if superuser is the right place to ask this question, but feel free to redirect me.  Summary of Failed Attempts:   Booted into Safe Mode  Made a New User Account System Restore Point (two days ago, 9 days ago)  Deleting / Restoring / Modifying FolderDescriptions registry entries SFC /scannow  Removing windows update KB2984006  Scanned for viruses using Nod32  Scanned for malware using MalwareBytes   Details:  Tried rolling back to two different system restore points, both immediately before I observed the problem and one release prior to that.  Tried restoring FolderDescriptions registry entries as found here:   Booting in safe mode as suggested here:   SFC /scannow as suggested here:   Tried removing registry keys and windows update KB2984006 as suggested here:   Tried exporting folderdescriptions from other machine and importing as suggested here:   Compared my exported registry with other machine's exported registry for both:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions   My FolderDescriptions branch of the registry in both cases are binary equal to those exported from my wife's Windows 8.1 laptop which works fine.
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Every time I open a folder from the desktop, a prompt is shown that the said folder is opened. How do I stop that?
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I am browsing Shared folders on a Windows network through Samba.  When I first opened a system on the network I was asked for a login username, password and I checked the save-password setting. Now the shared folder opens directly without asking for authentication.  I want to browse the folder using a different user which has more access rights. How should I do that?
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I have run into something that looks like a bug in Windows.  I have extracted a RAR archive onto my PC and the extracted folders cannot be deleted by any means!  My OS's language is English with some culture aspects of it set to Greek.  The character that seems to create the problem seems to be 'å'.  Here is a screen-shot that displays the problem:    Using DEL from the cmd doesn't seem to help.  When I try to delete the folder from Explorer nothing happens.  When I try to rename the folder from Explorer I get these weird messages :      Seems like a part of Windows thinks it's a file, while another part of it thinks it's a folder.  So, the question is: does anyone know what goes on here and any way to delete this thing?  EDIT:  As you can see, I have found a solution. But if someone could explain to me WHY Windows has problems with this character while it generally supports Unicode, let me know. I would like to understand the internals of it... (that's the only difference from the other question, I guess)  Does NTFS support both Unicode and ASCII files names and that file used ASCII (for some reason)? Then if it used ASSCII, how on earth was the character displayed correctly in Explorer?
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What are the available options for password protecting a folder? I'm talking about requiring a password to actually access the folder, not just user access rights. Is the third-party software out there secure and stable? What are the recommendations?
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I currently have a file on the root of my external hard drive simply named ._., which I am guessing was added to my hard drive after using it on my MacBook a while ago.  I'm trying to delete this file on my Windows 10 machine; however Windows keeps claiming the file cannot be found.    I also tried deleting the file through an elevated command prompt; however the same message is returned.    Is there any way I can delete this file from my hard drive through Windows?
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When opening Run via +R in Windows Server 2019, there are no items in its history or Registry key: (I believe the situation is the same in Windows 10) HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU   I think it's because I deleted a folder in one of the Windows system directories, and while I can't think of the exact name of that folder, I remember its name contains history  Is there a way to fix this?
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Let's say user has Directory1 and it contains File1 File2 CantBeDeletedFile How to make so the user would never be allowed to delete the CantBeDeletedFile?  If I change the ownership of Directory1 and remove write permissions users wouldn't be able to delete any file. They also wouldn't be able to add new files etc.  I just want to be able to set some files which would never be deleted.  More specific description.  I am creating user profiles. I am creating application launcher files in their Desktop. So I want to set some launcher files (.desktop) and make them so user can only launch them and they couldn't rename nor delete, just launch.  Currently if user owns the directory which contain any file. He can delete.  If there is no generic way for all *nix, it's a Linux and ext4 FS.
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I'm trying to delete a folder in Windows 7 and get a perplexing error message: "Could not find this item:  This is no longer located in G:\Graphics.  Verify the item's location and try again.  I can see the folder -- I can find it.  I just can't delete it.    I also get a second error message (sometimes) when I click on the folder: G:\Graphics 2009-11-17 refers to a location that is unavailable...this information might have been moved to a different location.    I'm using Windows 7; this folder is on an external hard drive.  I've emptied the folder (there were items in it); I've scanned that external hard drive for errors.  Trying to rename the folder yields the same enigmatic error message.    Is there a way to delete this folder?
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Can't open a folder in windows 7 64bit, by double clicking, it shows me that the default option for opening folder is "cmd" (it's highlighted when i'm right clicking a folder, and the "open" option comes next). I've tried running some registry fixing tools, but it didn't fix it. Can someone suggest me what should I do.
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I want to make my folders private, so that they can only be accessed after logging in with my own account, but be inaccessible by other local accounts, even the administrator accounts.  I have a PC with windows 8 Professional.   I know I can set the security options for a folder and deny full control access for any other account already created. But since there are other Administrator accounts, new accounts can be created from there and then my folder will be accessible from there.  And if I deny access for ALL administrator group, then even I myself wont have access to my folder!  What is the solution?
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Eclipse created a temp folder in one of the directories which is nested quite deep, e.g.  dir1\dir1\dir1\dir1\...   I am unable to delete this folder in Windows via Explorer, the del or rmdir commands, nor the Cygwin 'rm' command.  How should I remove this very long folder?  It just keeps saying "File name too long..."
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Is there any software for cleaning Windows' local settings / temp folder?   With no installing, not many options, just a simple, nice interface with buttons to do what's needed and which wouldn't scare the younger users. Explicitly made for clearing the temp folder? Or maybe there is some command which can be run in  (cmd.exe)?  It's just that  has some weird bug. It stores the files in this folder and now I and few other users are experiencing problems with files being used, not found and lot of mess generally which I guess is caused by the files being stored in this folder and not overwriting.  So it's kind of a hard situation here..  does not help in clearing this folder and  is very confusing for young users and people not into the OS.
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I've done a clean install of 18.04 and I can't open desktop folders, not even the desktop trash can. Anybody else had this issue? I click on the desktop folders (double click) and nothing happens.  Strange enough, I can open  them when using Nautilus and going to home\stackinator\desktop\ or whatever the path is (can't remember at this point).
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From a Windows workstation when I delete files over the network (e.g. a file share, server disk, etc) those files are never put into a trash can, either on my Windows workstation or on the server - they're instantly and permanently deleted. This has always sucked IMHO.  Is there a software that, in this scenario, puts the files into a trash can somewhere for easy undelete?  Maybe a Windows policy change, registry setting value, software utility, etc ?   -- Looking for a specific solution instead of general "Hey look into this, or try this". I'm convinced somebody has already solved this and can explain it. Thanks.