Permissions and TrustedInstaller

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I installed Vista RTM to partition C and now I'm trying to remove earlier
Vista RC1 from D. I have deleted all folders except Program Files,
ProgramData and Windows. If I try to delete these, the errormessage after all
UAC confirmation windows is: "You need permission to perform this action". I
don't want to format partition D because of there is also data I don't want
to remove, so what should I do to delete these folders? I have tried to
change ownership to admin group, as well as give full rights to admin group
to these folders but no help.

The second question: I changed the owner of a folder from TrustedInstaller
to admin. Now I try to set TrustedInstalled again to the owner, but I can't
find it when using "Select users and groups": what's the right location? Or
how should I do that?
 
Hi,

Change ownership to your user account, not just the admin group, and make
sure you check the box to propagate to objects and subcontainers.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Didn't help... changed ownership to me, but still the same message when try
to delete: "You need permission to perform this action."
 
Hi,

Run a command prompt as administrator (right click CMD, choose "run as
administrator"), delete the folders from the prompt.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
I have the same problem (writing files back to some directories) and I'm not
using pirated software :-)
 
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