re: Can't delete a folder with subfolders
Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
Just because you don't see anything running in the Task Manager, doesn't mean that
something isn't running. Have you ever used Process Explorer to look at what's running
in your system? Even then you may not see it all if something is stealthy enough.
The only way you might determine if something is really hiding, is to look at memory
usage, very, very carefully..
Think back to when you could delete normally and when you couldn't. What was installed
or what changes might have been done. I've had the same issues when a program I
was testing, made some changes to the system and they were not reversed when I uninstalled
it. This is bad programming and sloppy install/uninstall routines. In one case,
I went through and killed all services except what was running on a clean install
of Windows till I found the issue, but never did determine what was locking up the
delete operation since it was in one of the generic hosts. This has been a pain
in Windows since Win 95 and actually before that.
If you can delete normally in Safe Mode, then there is a process somewhere that is
causing the issue whether it shows up or not, or your permissions were messed with
somehow by an application at one time. Whether you will ever find what happened
is anyones guess. Sad part here is that you may have to reinstall Windows clean
to get rid of it! I've been there more than once since I test software, and is why
I image my HDD's so that I can roll back to get rid of an issue or the leftover effects
of a program when I need to. There isn't always an obvious solution to this one
I'm afraid IME..
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