Cannot Delete Previous User's Files From 2nd Hand Laptop
Sep 25, 2006
I bought a laptop from someone. Dell 6230S. It has windows XP sp2. I reloaded Windows and made myself the administrator. The person who had this before me has a group of files, lets call them JONAH (not real name) about 1/2 GB in size and I can't delete them!! Actually I've managed to delete some but not all. Jonah is about 1/2 the size it used to be. They're located in C:documents and Settings and they contain all his old files including his windows files, my documents etc. I've tried deleting from safe mode, I've tried using KillBOX (in and out of safe mode and on reboot), I've tried unchecking "READ OnLY" and I still can't do it. This is quite a bit of space so I want to reclaim it. I'm using NTFS.
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Oct 10, 2010
I recently reinstalled XP but I didn't format the hard drive during the process. My hard drive is now almost full because the files and folders were not deleted...and they are nowhere to be found. I vaguely remember an option somewhere to delete files from a previous installation in xp but I can't seem to find it anywhere.I even tried Googling it but can't find it. Does anyone know how I can get rid of these old files.
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Jan 18, 2006
I have Windows XP Home and i want to delete a user account and i have been unsuccessful . Everytime i go into "control panel/user accounts" and try to "Delete account", it just sits there with the hourglass and then when I try to get out of it it says that the "program is not responding".
Getting the same message:
Error Name:
szAppName : mshta.exe szAppVer : 6.0.2900.2180 szModName : hungapp
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000
C:DOCUME~1OwnerLOCALS~1TempWER19c4.dir00mshta.exe.mdmp
C:DOCUME~1OwnerLOCALS~1TempWER19c4.dir00appcompat.txt
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I am using Windows XP Home SP2.
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