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Hey- I just noticed that when I drag n drop shortcuts within the start menu, their icons don’t survive the move, their properties show them as invalid shortcuts, and they have the same access denied/write protected error within explorer, yet they are deletable using the del /f command. Just figured it was worth mentioning- hope it gives someone smarter than me a clue as to what’s going on w/ this bs.
DJ- I had a brief jolt of hope upon reading your idea, as I hadn’t even known that route was available to me. However, Windows wins again, as I don’t see either the Advanced Settings section under My Computer> Folder Options> Tools> View, or anything regarding security or permissions in the folder or it’s properties.
I’ve had another folder become “infected” (for lack of a better term) with the access denied phenomenon after reinstalling Plus!. In this case it’s worse, as not only the dir is undeletable- the files within the folder are now unresponsive to the del /f command. It leads me to suspect something’s in my computer creating these headaches. I don’t see any processes/apps running that don’t belong, and antivirus catches nothing, so I’m thoroughly perplexed. Seems I’m on an Install freeze until I either reinstall the OS or find a solution to what’s going on here.
Thank you nonetheless for the suggestion.Same problem on XP Home. Tried everything mentioned above & even in safe mode, I get the access is denied error in both DOS and Explorer. I had success deleting read-only shortcuts that were created by the same app that created the stubborn dir using del /f. I tried rmdir /? to see if there’s a force option for it but there isn’t.
When I open the folder’s properties in Explorer I see the read only box checked & when I uncheck it & click either apply or OK the attrib’s immediateley back again when I look at properties again. No success changing attributes through DOS either.
I’m not about to reinstall windows just to get a bad menu outta the start menu- but it’s the only problem on this machine I’ve yet to find a solution for, and it really bugs me.
