Win 7 padlocks?

[WhiteOx]

I had 2 folders with padlocks on them, I was finally able to remove the padlocks but could not remove the folders?

A box kept popping up telling me I needed permission from blah,blah, blah to delete them ...... I turned off UAC gave myself full permissions over these 2 folders and still couldn't delete them I couldn't even delete them using the admin account??

I booted into XP and deleted them that way.
Any ideas?

[mandc]

Yeah those padlocks really burn my wick.
My opinion is the os should come with all of that stupid permissions crap off and then let the new user decide on the level of security they want and allow a very simple change.
Getting rid of those padlocks required a lot of research and as you found, it still won't allow full control.
It is a total pain to network windows 7 with XP.

[joezep]

Try this program have used it on xp, vista no problems but not on w7



Hope this helps
Joezep

[best4less]

A box kept popping up telling me I needed permission from blah,blah, blah to delete them ...... I turned off UAC gave myself full permissions

To funny, that was me today BUT you fixed me Whiteox with the UAC thingy

cheers

[WhiteOx]

Try this program have used it on xp, vista no problems but not on w7



Hope this helps
Joezep

Tried to download that app but it was deleted by my virus software as adware .. thanks anyway.

[joezep]

It defiantly is not a virus, Majorgeeks do say that they test each program they put on there site.
The reason it was picked up as a virus is it makes changes to reg and stops processes to get rid of the offending file. just switch your antivirus off temporarily.