I just did a system recovery on a Gateway with XP Pro from the restore
partition on the hard drive. One of the restore options was to save the old
windows files in a folder called Backup (date). So I did that. After
restoring the OS I copied all the files I needed back into the new install
from the backup folder. Then I wanted to delete the backup folder.
Everything deleted OK except...
C:\Backup\Windows\System32\Macromedia\Flash\flash8 a.ocx
No way in hell can I get it deleted. "access denied". I booted into Safe
Mode where I could get to the security options and no matter what I try I
can't remove the read only attribute. I'm already the owner and all the
permissions are checked. I also tried the delete on boot option in
HijackThis. But the file still won't go away. Googling says download the
flashplayer uninstaller. But that doesn't work because this file is in a
backup folder which is not the *real* installation. I also tried a Hiren's
Boot CD. Same message there, "access denied".
Of course, it is not "hurting" anything, but it'd sure be nice to get rid
of that 5 deep ugly folder.
Any ideas?

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