How To Delete OS
Nov 18, 2012
I dropped my computer (Dell Inspiron 15R) and the hard drive went bad.Got a new hard drive installed with out an OS.I had a Windows 7 32 bit disk and started to install it, but failed to realize it was an upgrade disk and there needed to be an existing OS for it to work.Now I have an old Windows XP, SP2 OS disk and when I try to install that, I get the blue screen of death every time.How can I delete the Windows 7 upgrade I put on there first, so I can install XP and then use my Windows 7 upgrade?
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Oct 29, 2009
I need to replace a W2K computer on a domain with a Windows 7 computer(laptop), but I want to keep the same computer name.I need the ip, username, profile to stay the same. Can I delete the computer from the domain and name the new computer that name I deleted and still keep the users profile on the new machine, as if it was the old one?
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Jan 28, 2013
Moving to general can't find the option to delete thread on my phone will delete.this thread when im home.
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Apr 14, 2011
Running maxthon 2.5.15.1000 (and ie8 as its engine). DL'd ie9 which runs even though I select the ie8 icon. Obviously, ie9 has replaced ie8. Couldn't find any reference to ie9 within "uninstall programs." Would like to get ie8 back and delete ie9
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Jan 22, 2012
I have a 6 month old HP Pavilion dv6.When I was partitioning the hard drive, some error occurred and the process got interrupted( this was after the 'shrink the primary partition'0 step). Disk Management Window didn't show any new partition, so I went on and created two new partitions, but afterwards, I can see an extra partition in My Computer. No info like disk capcity etc., visible; It just has the name 'Local Disk (Q)'. I tried running Disk Management again to get rid of it, but it's not shown in the Disk Management listing. How do I delete it? I tried system restore, but no system restore points prior to the partitioning available
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Mar 16, 2012
I am unable to delete a program. It requires administrator rights to delete. I am the the administrator.
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Dec 29, 2012
i have an old drive 320 gig which used to be my main drive untill something went wrong . then i just replaced it with another drive installed windows and off i went again...
now ive got my old drive set up, and the files i want have all been nicely put in a KEEP folder, i want to delete everything else on the drive , ie.. the old windows directory, the program files directory etc etc .... but .. you guessed it ... there locked, and its prooving a tad annoying to delete them one by one using an unlocker programme...
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Nov 8, 2010
I've heard that some people call them super cookies and undestructible cookies that can track the whole private data on the computer.How to delete these evercookies? Is there some software that can delete them at all?
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Nov 26, 2011
I made a folder on my desktop and tried to put a file in it but the system froze up and now i cant open the folder and i cant delete it.
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Jan 8, 2012
I tried to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 but I couldn't do it so I went to the folder location and started deleting it folder by folder and when I got to this folder called ActiveX with 4 DLL's in it called (AcroIEHelper.dll AcroPDF.dll GbDetect.dll pdfshell.dll) so I dragged them to the desktop and tried to delete them again with no luck.
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Nov 14, 2012
I thought I'd give the W8 consumer preview a go, not being that tech savvy (I'm not computer illiterate though) I think I've messed it up a bit.Now I want the space back, but CAN'T find the VHD partition in DISK MANAGEMENT on W7, but I CAN on W8.I've added print screens from both W7 and W8, the darker bars are W7, lighter W8.
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Aug 30, 2011
I'm trying to delete this file in My Downloads folder (Firefox) but everytime I try, it says "Could Not Find This Item. This is no longer located in :\Users\Username\Downloads. Verify the item's location and try again. Type:File. ize: 0 bytes. It's just annoying me. I've tried Refreshing and rebooting.
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Nov 28, 2011
so I have pretty much tried everything to delete this folder on my external HDD, yet nothing works. Every time I try to delete it says "You require premission to change this folder." Changed the permissions. Nothing. I even managed to get the lock off of the folder but it still wont delete. I restarted my computer, downladed LockHunter and a couple other programs.
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Jan 6, 2012
I have Secunia on my computer, which is 64bit. Secunia says I have several programs duplicated some with 64 bit after the name....can I delete the non 64bit programs?
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Apr 15, 2012
right click desktop, new, folder. That is the folders I can not delete I made folders to store pictures, junk etc. These folders can not be deleted by windows even in safe mode. I can make another folder and stick it in the folder I am trying to delete.example one folder is titled junk, I can make a folder and stick it inside folder titled junk and delete the folder, but soon as I do a new folder titled junk is back on my desktop. file names can not be changed
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Mar 24, 2011
I have a folder on my desktop that I am trying to delete, but I keep getting a message that says "it is open in another programme" so consequently I can't delete it.I haven't got anything open
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Dec 8, 2011
I've just bought a Windows 7 computer and have loaded Norton 360, which I had already bought for my old XP machine. Is this OK to run with the pre-loaded Windows 7 anti-virus program? If not, is it possible to delete the Windows one? I would prefer to keep Norton.
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Dec 29, 2012
I got a new SSD and I was able to migrate my OS to my new SSD. I was able to boot up from the SSD and everything (I pulled out my HDD and it booted off my SSD). Now, the problem is that I have a copy of Windows 7 on my old HDD and I can't get it off because of permissions issues (i'm running as admin).
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Apr 17, 2011
How can I delete all historis in my IE8? Where are cookies located in Windows 7?1. tried Safety-->Delete Browsing history (didn't help)2. tried via Local Group Policy Editor-- Not configurated (didn't help)3. CCleaner (didn't help)There is only on way to delete everything "manually" but it can take a lot of time.
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Dec 1, 2011
I have Windows Live Mail and when I click on Contacts at the lower left hand I got no contacts but when I send a email an click on To: then I have my contacts but I can't add or delete any so I don't really know where my contacts are at can anyone help?
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Jul 27, 2009
How can I delete all of the installed drivers from windows 7?
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Oct 24, 2009
When uninstalling a driver you now get a delete option as it uninstalls , what a god send this is I have lost count of the amount of times in vista I have uninstalled a graphics driver only to have it put it back in when it reboots ! Not anymore !
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Oct 7, 2010
i found two files in my external HD and i can't delete them they just appeared
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Jan 15, 2011
I have a folder that has 25 subfolders and all folders are empty. When I try to delete them, an error appears stating that the folder contains names that are too long for the recycle bin. The next screen states that the source file name(s) are too long than is supported by the file system.
I would like to remove this folder and all its subfolders. I have tried everything from changing permissions to changing attributes and even trying DOS to remove the folders; no luck!
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Jan 26, 2011
In my workings with Windows 7, I have come across a few folders that have been created by the system or and installation, they are all locked and are a number/letter combination type name. The first contains a copy of iesetup.exe dated 2/8/2009. The second contains an MPsigStub.exe dated 5/21/10, the third has an amd64 folder that shows up as empty, I didn't have show hidden files on. The fourth has another iesetup.exe same date, ie8.msu same date, a .dll same date and a eula.rtf dated 2/12/09. I do not believe that they are required but I have been wrong enough times to ask more learned and experienced people about it. May I safely delete them?
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Jun 21, 2011
Through some obvious fault of my own, and probably during one of two complete Windows 7 Ultimate reinstalls, I ended up with four of five folders within my �ProgramData� folder that appear to belong to another user. Since I am the only user on the system, and since Win 7 tells me that I need permission from myself to access these files, I was confused.Two of these folders had data from both Nero, and Nuance. Attempting to upgrade either of these applications failed, probably due the protected, or read-only, status of these folders. While I couldn't erase them, I was able to rename them. While that then cause both applications to fail, reinstalling these applications with straightforward, and I'm no longer locked out of these folders.
That just leaves the two folders that I renamed, and am unable to delete under any circumstances. I even tried booting the system under a standalone Linux, and any attempt to delete these folders failed there also. This situation is more of a net, or annoyance, then any major problem, but I would be happy to listen to anyone's ideas about how I might delete these folders.
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Apr 20, 2012
First off, sorry if this is in the wrong place. I had no idea what section to post this in.Today I was using a program for the game 'Minecraft' called MultiMC and when deleting files it created I don't need anymore, I came across a folder I couldn't open, delete or do anything with. When I try to open it it says '(location) is not accessible. Access is denied'. When I try delete it, it says 'You need permission to perform this action. You require permission from the computer's administrator to make changed to this folder' (yet, I am the administrator - the only account on the computer).
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Oct 4, 2012
I can't delete autorun.inf says I need permission from TrustedInstaller to make changes to this file...
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Oct 26, 2009
I was running Windows Vista on my C drive and had purchased Windows 7. Prior to installing Win 7, I partitioned my C drive (since it was one giant drive) and made a new one and labeled it H. I then went on to install Windows 7 on the H drive, which went smoothly. Now I'd like to delete the partition that contains Vista.
However, I am not able to delete it and I get an error. I have attached the screen shot of my disk management. If someone could explain how I could go about in order to delete the C partition, that would be wonderful. I again apologize for starting this thread if someone else has posted the same thing elsewhere.
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Nov 16, 2009
how to delete a stuborn reg key ?. its HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareNero
tried :-
reg assin
nero cleaning tool
check permissions
reg cleaners
all getting unable to delete
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Dec 8, 2009
I had windows vista home premium 64bit in a dual boot with windows 7 ultimate beta build. Then I got my upgrade cd and upgraded vista to Windows 7 home premium 64bit. So now I have a dual boot with Windows 7 (new version with all my files on it) and Windows 7 (old beta with almost nothing on it except for Windows 7 beta). In the disk manager, it says "system, BOOT, page file, active, primary partition" for the new Windows 7, and just "primary partition" for the old beta partition.
I'm pretty sure this means I can delete the old partition and re-allocate the space to my main partition, but I'm posting this just to be sure because I learned a hard lesson when I deleted an ubuntu partition that was in charge of the boot.
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