Vista (thats it love,cant take any more, go fetch the ax........

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I just downgraged from vista 64 to vista 32.
Did a clean install, vista told me it was saving some files from my previous version . No problem I thought ,I dont need them so will just delete them.
How wrong am I ........
went into disc clean up deleted previous version of windows. Rebooted.Restarted.
went back into windows and there is a file there called
Program Files (x86). Dont worry I have also got one called Program files with the stuff I have installed this time.

This one of my old files from vista 64. got all my old files in.
Tried to delete it and guess what......
I havent got permision.....

what is going on?

Anyone got any ideas............


Thanks in advance
 
wish I never downgraded to vista hahaha
but hey when it works it works.
Well I have managed to delete most of the contents in the folder now
Just two folders in the Program Files (x86) left.

Still getting the error you need permission.

Any more ideas?
 
Go to the Properties for the folder, go to the Security tab, and play around with the permissions there. Should let you delete the folder after that.
 
What DO people do to have such bad experiences with their OS's?

I've had Vista running since beta, never had a days problem with it other than the pointer stopped working for 30 seconds when switching profiles - now fixed.

I use it everyday, internet, movies, programming, graphics. It's had stuff installed, uninstalled, patched, deleted, moved, copied.

I just don't understand what the hell people do to have so many problems.
 
I had my first bluescreen on Vista the other day, but apart from that, i've had no problems. Having said that, i didn't get a bluescreen on XP for the 7 (ish) years i had it...
 
People that think Vista crashes more often and is more unstable than XP are compltely on the wrong path.

Vista does not make your system crash more (who on earth came up with that idea). The only problem real users should be getting is that some of their applications/software wont work due to the compatibility problem with a 64bit Operating System.

That is to be expected though, since this is the first time we have had the move over to a 64bit opersting system.
 
hey most of you are great and help. Comments like user = crap doesn't help.To put the record straight I thought I did format the hdd , vista told me it was deleting my data etc etc. Its just the little problems that wear you down. I have never professed to being the greatest software / windows engineer in the world.All I needed was a little help, not being put down.If i can't get a mature answer then whats the point. It would seem yet again the minority ruins it for the rest. Just remember people we all need help at some point of our lifes.

I repeat most of you guys are great and love to help people by sharing their knowlege.


Oh I did try taking ownership changing permissions but yet again it came up with access deneid try again error.


Many thanks
 
Install vista again. making sure you select custom and then when it shows u your hard drive select the format option. then install it. and it will be all fine.
 
thanks for that. As far as I know I have told you everything.I am left withas stated just two folders in the Program Files (x86) folder. They are
Common Files with speech engines in andwindows media player with icons in.
The good point is that they are under 35 meg between them.
I cant face installing vista again.It just takes ages to put all your other programs on. So I think I will live with it.


Thanks for all the help anyway
 
Vista doesn't support allmy software applications for a start.

It's bloaty has no proper Unix style interface,

More annoyingly is the "softly softly" interface whenever you want to change ANY settings. It's just a pain in the ***.

I do use it on my laptop (which I'm using ATM) but NO WAY would I put it on my main desktop.

I just wish apple would make OS-X for PC's :(
 
Well your all wrong on how to fix this feature.
All you need to do is turn off UAC & reboot then you can delete the folder.
Its to stop viruses & dimwits from deleting the system folders who don't know what they may be doing.
With UAC on you will get this allot with the OS folders & files.
 
ok success,

Of course I turned UAC off to np avail.
Anyway here is a solution borrowed from another site and it worked.

"ok, this seemed complicated since i wanted to delete many system files from a previous Vista install on a secondary partition that i was cleaning up. i didn't want to reformat, so i tried delete and ran into this brick wall.

the solution that i find much easier for multiple files is the following:
(assuming you CAN use admin privs) 1)via folder properties go to your security tab.
2) in the bottom half you have the permissions listed for users, click the Advanced button
3) now go to the Owner tab, click Edit button (you will be asked for permision if UAC is at default)
4) change owner to your account and be sure to check the 'Replace owner on subcontainers and objects' and click Apply button. this results in all files including system files being switched to your account as owner!
5)now in the 'Advanced Security Settings for (your folder)' you need to edit the permissions: select your account (the one you just used to take ownership) and click Edit button.
6) you now see the Permissions tab and you need to again select your user account. (ensure that the permission is Full Control) check the lower 'Replace all existing inheritable permissions…' box and click Apply.
You are done! now you can close all the property stuff and just delete your folder. it may still ask for permission, but you now have the needed permissions to delete all contents of the folder.

hope this solves the problem for anyone that needs to take care of multiple files, obviously it will work for a single file as well. "

This did the job for me.

Thanks for the advice and help.
 
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