I am the only user on my laptop, (vista home premuim) and recently after

downloading a couple of free games from windows market place i was unable to

delete them after realising they were rubbish. I needed permissions

apparantly. Right clicking on the files then selecting properties took me

to permissions where i selected the security tab. As far as i could see,

everything was as it should be. So i am now confused as to why i am unable

to delete these files. I then used a system restore point which seemed to

take me back but another file now wont delete. i shouldnt have to go to a

previous restore point everytime i want rid of files. Please help. TIA

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 01:30:59 +0100, "lemmy" <lemmy810@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am the only user on my laptop, (vista home premuim) and recently after

>downloading a couple of free games from windows market place i was unable to

>delete them after realising they were rubbish. I needed permissions

>apparantly. Right clicking on the files then selecting properties took me

>to permissions where i selected the security tab. As far as i could see,

>everything was as it should be. So i am now confused as to why i am unable

>to delete these files. I then used a system restore point which seemed to

>take me back but another file now wont delete. i shouldnt have to go to a

>previous restore point everytime i want rid of files. Please help. TIA

 

If you got an hour to kill visit the below site which has an hour long

interview with the two guys at Microsoft that wrote UAC and they try

to explain why they did what they did. Even if you just skim through

it most people find it interesting.

 

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=14&TagID=9

 

The video you want is called "UAC, What, how, why".

 

Two possible fixes.

 

Easy way: Turn UAC off from Control Panel.

 

Hard way: If you like to tinker, you were on the right track. Go to

the security tab on EACH of your hard drives except for your root

drive ©, I don't suggest you mess with that since there shouldn't be

anything there but Windows and what it hopes you put there in it's

special folders like My pictures, documents, etc.. which get treated

differently than folder elsewhere on your system.

 

As far as all your other hard drives try this:

 

1. Right click on the drive letter in Windows Explorer, properties,

then go to the Security Tab.

 

2. Under Group or users names locate yourself as a user. For example

if you logged in as Joey, you should see Joey listed, perhaps under

any name you may have also assigned your computer, so if you did

that when you installed Vista, you may have (main\Joey) assuming

you named your computer main.

 

3. Select Joey then click the EDIT button. Obviously you substitute

the actual name you log in as a user.

 

4. Now you should have full permissions for the drive meaning

EVERYTHING, Full Control, Modify, Read & Execute, List Folder

Contents and Read are all checked, nothing grayed out. If you

don't see this then check those that are missing and be sure

to remember to click APPLY then OK.

 

In theory at least you (Joey or whatever name you're using) should

now have full permission to do whatever on every file on the hard

drive you just changed. Repeat for all your other hard drives except

for C. Don't change that one! Not recommended.

 

Now real world sometimes some folders or files within some folder hold

onto their ownership which might be assigned to something else other

than you OR if Vista considers what you want to do a security risk you

still may see the UAC prompt but you should be able to click through

it.

 

A bonus of doing this is file transfer should for most under many

conditions will also be faster since Vista shouldn't have to sniff in

each file worrying like a nanny over permissions. That is one of the

things Vista is doing when you see the goofy "calculating time"

message in Windows Explorer.

If you are just trying to delete the game files, that is not the way to do

it. Some of the files may be in use and prevent that from happening. The

correct way is to shut down the game. Then use the Vista uninstall utility

to remove the game. If there are now files left over that can not be

deleted, reboot the computer. Try to delete the remaining files again.

 

Of course it is entirely possible that you received something "unwanted"

along with the game. It is not unheard of. Run your antivirus and anti

spyware programs - after first updating them to the latest signature files.

 

--

 

 

Regards,

 

Richard Urban

Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

 

 

"lemmy" <lemmy810@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:70513158-AB09-48C2-A2A8-EBFC34EBE939@microsoft.com...

>I am the only user on my laptop, (vista home premuim) and recently after

>downloading a couple of free games from windows market place i was unable

>to delete them after realising they were rubbish. I needed permissions

>apparantly. Right clicking on the files then selecting properties took me

>to permissions where i selected the security tab. As far as i could see,

>everything was as it should be. So i am now confused as to why i am unable

>to delete these files. I then used a system restore point which seemed to

>take me back but another file now wont delete. i shouldnt have to go to a

>previous restore point everytime i want rid of files. Please help. TIA