Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 bit. Malware of some sort created symbolic links in the Windows Defender folders. Is there some other way to remove a link? I tried mklink to change the link to an empty folder - no joy:.
Why didn't MS provide some way to unlink a folder? Seems pretty elementary that there should be some way to undo a link operation! Obviously I cannot delete my config folder.
I'm trying to avoid having to start over from scratch - help! You can delete the parent folder and start a clean setup. Be very careful where and how you use this command. Also, bonus tip — Command Prompt has basic autocompletion. So you could just type in del test , press the tab key, and Command Prompt will change it to del "Test File. Sometimes files are marked as read only, and you'll see the following error when you try to use the del command:. Both commands work the same way, but let's stick with rmdir since it's a bit more expressive.
Also, I'll use the terms directory and folder interchangeably for the rest of the tutorial. Note: Any directories deleted with the rmdir command cannot be recovered. In this case I want to remove a directory named Subfolder, so I'll use the command rmdir Subfolder :. You could cd into the Subfolder directory and remove the file, then come back with cd.. And just imagine if there were a bunch of other nested files and directories!
Like with the del command, there's a helpful flag we can use to make things much faster and easier. There will probably be a prompt asking if you want to remove that directory. If so, just type "y" and hit enter. My husband had the same problem with his external drive.
This is what I did to delete it. These are the steps I followed in windows 7 while logged on under administrator Once you are back in the 'advanced security settings' window follow these instructions Note: You MAY have to close out the properties window altogether and then re-open it for the above changes to take effect before performing the next set of steps. Sometimes you can't delete a file or a folder because the filename or a file which is in the folder contains a hidden character.
Once you have a Command Prompt open, navigate to that particular folder, and open it. I used Windows cleanup. I accomplished this by following this tutorial. Its for Windows 8 but works just as well for Windows 7. Just use this text, save it in. I've encountered this problem a few times. I've concluded that something in the OS or some background app has a file or folder open, and the system won't let the operation proceed.
The error messages are probably somewhat bogus -- they get an error back and assume it's an auth error. Never tried to "fix" this since for me it's just an irritation, not a "real" problem. And what's one more irritation from Windows, in the grand scheme of things?
I could not move a folder with two sub-folders and files. It was an old folder, so there was no way anything imaginable could have been using it. I used resource monitor "search" box, above right section of the handle-and-file sub-window under CPU activity to verify that the Explorer process window did have something associated.
The ONLY process associated with them was the display window Explorer and they seem to only have been there because they were within the list of folders being displayed. No other processes were active. Otherwise, there were no active processes using these files or folders. I checked for lock files or other odd things like hidden or system files and there were none. The command prompt didn't help. Each item had the same name, and I could not move the parent folder in DOS either.
I managed to use Windows Explorer to move each folder's files to another folder even used the same folder names, but did not copy the name in case an invisible character was there.
After moving files, I deleted the folders. Then I put them all in a duplicate file structure right where the old one "was", to see if I could I could.
Finally, I moved the folder and contents to its intended new destination. I'm happy! I also had this problem on Windows 10 with a directory in one of my projects so not one created by Windows. I got a similar message, but instead it said that it required permissions from me? An elevated command prompt didn't work either. Getting ownership and resetting the permissions also didn't fix the issue.
Yet after I rebooted my PC I was able to remove the directory sigh. Probably one of the files was being held by a process.
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