When you can't open, edit, or delete a file in Windows File Explorer, it's either still open in a program running in the background or something didn't close properly. Luckily, you can force delete, ...

I have a couple of files in the Windows.old folder that are corrupted and I cannot delete them. I think they are causing windows to do a chkdsk at startup, how do I get rid of them? I've tried chnging ...

If you can’t delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume on your Windows computer, you fall under one of the following cases. An Access Control List (ACL) is being used You can’t delete ...