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Originally Posted by thommy
there are still a few other options.
1. i can be that the programm is "in use" because there is still something in the startmenue.
in this case open explorer (as admin) then open the taskmanager and close all tasks except
explorer.
than try to delete it again.
2. the files are still in trash
empty trash
3. there is a problem with some registry entry.
the board tool on windows is not very efficient but you can try it.
press windows + R
type: scanreg /fix
restart and check if the folder is still there or if you can delete it (as admin)
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I tried all that (except for the reg scan. No joy as yet, couldn't delete it - (However I now only have one folder today) but I couldn't delete it, or open it. It also now says in properties that its empty, but its lying to me as the used space on my m.2 has not gone down at all...
I tried to take ownership of it from the admin explorer window and found this little gem...
Some sort of winappID needs to be inplace? At this point I'm getting at the edge of what I can do, because windows is like a brand new OS to me, after 10 years on the mac, and the windows I knew so well before that is almost unrecognisable to the windows of today...