Delete an Access Denied File

When my old HP ( which i bought it for 45000 rs) died because of a fried mother board, I salvaged my hard disk. I snagged a 2.5″ USB hard disk case but didn’t have time to clean it up. While cleaning up the old Windows XP files tonight, I ran into the following error:

E:\WINDOWS\Temp\hsperfdata_SYSTEM>attrib +R *.*
Access denied - E:\WINDOWS\Temp\hsperfdata_SYSTEM\2792

I thought the attrib utility might help me fix the error but it didn’t. I checked the file Property dialog for a quick fix and didn’t find one.

A little poking around on the web and I decided that disabling simple file sharing may provide additional options. You disable it by navigating to Start, My Computer, where you click on the Tools option in the menu and chose the Folder Options … to get the following dialog box. You clicked the View tab. In the tab, you scroll down in the Advanced setttings section until you see the Use simple file sharing (Recommened) option. You click the check box to turn off simple file sharing. Click the Apply button to make the change.

Open a separate Explorer session, and navigate to the directory where you’ve encountered a file that denies you access to delete it. Right click on the file. You should see two tabs, one labeled General and the other Security. If you see only the General tab, you may have forgot to check the Apply button earlier.

Click the Security tab to see the following dialog. Click the Allow check box in the Permissions for Everyone section and then click the Apply button. You should now be able to delete the file in Windows Explorer.

Windows 7 Review - Not bad

As most of you know (through Twitter), I recently installed Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion. Chris Davis (blogger) asked me to write up a review on it, so here it is!

First off, installing Windows 7 was a painless process. I installed using the VMWare Vista drivers and all worked well. Some of you that are familiar with VMWare know that it “captures” your mouse, not so with Windows 7, your mouse is free to move back and forth between the VM and the host OS (before installing VMWare Tools).

Now onto something Microsoft messed up on. Again. If you notice in the screenshot (right), Windows 7 will have the same “versions” as Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate). A big mistake in my opinion. All that it leads to is consumer confusion. I can’t help but say: “You’re already taking ‘borrowing‘ so many ideas from Apple, please ‘borrow‘ the notion that one price gives you all the features.”

One cool feature of the dock-like taskbar. is the ability for applications to display progress. For example, Internet Explorer displays the progress of downloads as a progress overlay on the icon (see screenshot to right). The question will be, are third party browsers/applications going to be allowed to access this functionality? Or are we stuck using IE if we want this functionality?

Web developers rejoice! Windows 7 ships with Microsoft’s best attempt so far at being a standards-compliant browser: Internet Explorer 8. But then again, it’s not fully standards-compliant, so you still can’t use all of those nifty CSS 3.0 features. Oh well, it’s a start. (And then there’s the possibility someone will accidentally go into “compatibility mode” and never find their way out…)

One thing I thought was greatly improved from Vista (maybe I’m wrong…) is unity performance in VMWare (see screenshot to left). I was able to drag around windows from either OS and not have graphic glitches. I’m not a huge unity user, but I find myself using it once in a while, so I’m glad it works nicely.

That about wraps it up, if you have any questions or comments, leave me a comment below, or contact me through any of the methods listed on the contact page.