Kid can't delete a file that Steam won't let him

I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to take a look
where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only user, and with administrative
rights, where we can't delete a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete the file, getting
a permission denied.

How can that be?

On 11/22/2017 2:10 PM, harry newton wrote:
I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to take a look
where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only user, and with administrative
rights, where we can't delete a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete the file, getting
a permission denied.

How can that be?

You might try to download "take ownership" and from the right click
context menu "take ownership" and then try Delete.
HTH

Rene

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:10:37 +0000 (UTC), harry newton
wrote:

I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to take a look
where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only user, and with administrative
rights, where we can't delete a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete the file, getting
a permission denied.

How can that be?

Why are you allowing a baby goat access to a computer?

On 11/22/2017 2:10 PM, harry newton wrote:
I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to take a look
where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only user, and with administrative
rights, where we can't delete a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete the file, getting
a permission denied.

How can that be?
Try bringing up the machine in the Safe Mode and then see if the file
can be deleted.

If it can be deleted in the Safe Mode then I'd suspect some part of the
game software was running in the background keeping the file marked as
open or in use.

harry newton wrote:

I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to
take a look where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only
user, and with administrative rights, where we can't delete
a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete
the file, getting a permission denied.

Have you tried entering the file name and (filename Steam
delete) in the search engine.

You probably know this, but... You should not delete files
that are within the Steam program folders if Steam does not
allow it.

You can try uninstalling Steam.

harry newton wrote:
I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to take a look
where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only user, and with administrative
rights, where we can't delete a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete the file, getting
a permission denied.

How can that be?

There is a utility that removes files during a reboot.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...oads/pendmoves

movefile test.exe ""

It's the same subsystem the OS uses, the one that has the
spinning circle at shutdown and startup.

I haven't tested that on any really tough problems.

Paul

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:36:22 +1100, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:10:37 +0000 (UTC), harry newton
wrote:

I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to take a look
where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only user, and with administrative
rights, where we can't delete a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete the file,
getting a permission denied.

How can that be?

Why are you allowing a baby goat access to a computer?

Why can't you read a post before putting fingers to keys?

In article , lid says...
There is a utility that removes files during a reboot.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...oads/pendmoves

movefile test.exe ""

It's the same subsystem the OS uses, the one that has the
spinning circle at shutdown and startup.

I haven't tested that on any really tough problems.

Paul



Does it accept wildcards? The article doesn't say.

Jason wrote:
In article , lid says...
There is a utility that removes files during a reboot.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...oads/pendmoves

movefile test.exe ""

It's the same subsystem the OS uses, the one that has the
spinning circle at shutdown and startup.

I haven't tested that on any really tough problems.

Paul



Does it accept wildcards? The article doesn't say.

Could you issue a movefile command and then
check with pendmoves to see what got queued ?

Maybe that would save on the reboots needed to find out
how it really works.

I didn't spent a whole evening testing that thing.
I think I gave it one "easy" file to delete and
that was it. The thrill wore off.

Paul

Paul wrote:

harry newton wrote:

I don't understand why, but the neighbor's kid asked me to
take a look where he is on Windows 10 Home as the only
user, and with administrative rights, where we can't
delete a file that is related to a steam game.

I used attrib as administrator and still couldn't delete
the file, getting a permission denied.

How can that be?

There is a utility that removes files during a reboot.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...downloads/pend
moves

movefile test.exe ""

It's the same subsystem the OS uses, the one that has the
spinning circle at shutdown and startup.

I haven't tested that on any really tough problems.

I have another mysterious undeletable file with two periods
following the name and no extension...

delme..

When trying to delete or move it, when does throws a message
about not being able to find it. There is a problem to do with
the symbolic link.

I brought up the issue before, and you commented. The solution
was to use 7zip to zip the file and choose the option like
"delete source files after zipping". It worked. BUT this time
there is no 7zip option in the right-click context menu.

So I tried your Sysinternals utility, mentioned above. The file
is still there after a reboot even though the utility said it
was slated for deletion.

The problem is no big deal to me at the moment, but apparently
the answer to your question is "No, it does not work on really
tough problems."

I can try adding a hard drive and copying everything but that
file. Then format the drive and copy back... Yeah, some
workaround.

I wrote:

when does throws a message

That should have been "Windows throws a
message"

And the filename "delme" is the name I
gave it at one time, the name is not
mysterious. Although it could conceivably
have to do with the problem.

I need to look for the prior discussion.

Nevermind. Right clicking on the parent folder included the 7zip
option, and checking "delete files after zip process" (or
whatever) removed the file.

That was done after copying all but the problem file out of the
folder.

Not sure how that file appeared (again), maybe it has to do with
me using the word "delme" as a filename.

On 24/11/2017 22:20, Jason wrote:
In article , lid says...
There is a utility that removes files during a reboot.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...oads/pendmoves

movefile test.exe ""

It's the same subsystem the OS uses, the one that has the
spinning circle at shutdown and startup.

I haven't tested that on any really tough problems.

Paul



Does it accept wildcards? The article doesn't say.


No.

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