Recently I moved a hard drive from an older PC to a newer one.\u00a0 I attempted to delete the Windows and Program Files directories and was given this unfriendly message:<\/p>\n

Folder Access\u00a0Denied<\/p>\n

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Clicking continue fails with a message abut requiring permission from TrustedInstaller.<\/p>\n

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No need to Try Again, it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

To fix this dilemma one needs to edit the properties of the folder twice.\u00a0 Once to obtain ownership and secondarily to set full control permissions.<\/p>\n

Start with right clicking on the folder from explorer and selecting properties:<\/p>\n

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and on the security tab click Advanced near the bottom.<\/p>\n

Switch to the Owner tab and click Edit\u2026<\/p>\n

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Highlight your user account in the Change owner\u00a0to: section and click on Replace owner on subcontainers and objects as shown below:<\/p>\n

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Click Apply and wait for the Windows Security dialog changing ownership of to finish.\u00a0 Once finished you will be presented with this dialog:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Click OK and OK and OK and OK (4 times) to close out of the properties windows.<\/p>\n

Next, right click on the folder again; select properties again; go to the security tab again and click Advanced again (like in the instructions above).<\/p>\n

From the Permissions tab (shown below), click on Change Permissions\u2026<\/p>\n

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Next is displayed the Advanced Security Settings dialog:<\/p>\n

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Click on Add\u2026 and fill out the Enter the object name to selected:<\/p>\n

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In the next dialog (Permission Entry) check Full control \u201cAllow\u201d as shown below.\u00a0 And you don\u2019t want to check \u201cApply these permissions to objects and\/or containers within this container only\u201d.<\/p>\n

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After returning to the prior dialog and before clicking on Apply, make sure \u201cReplace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object\u201d is checked as indicated below:<\/p>\n

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The last step is to click Apply and agree to the following warning:<\/p>\n

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With the changes applied, you can click OK, OK, OK to close out of the open dialogs.<\/p>\n

And now the folder can now be deleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I moved a hard drive from an older PC to a newer one.\u00a0 I attempted to delete the Windows and Program Files directories and was given this unfriendly message: Folder Access\u00a0Denied   Clicking continue fails with a message abut requiring permission from TrustedInstaller. No need to Try Again, it won\u2019t work. To fix this […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}