Cannot delete any folder in WinXP

[Sunny]

Hello,

I have rerally weird issue with one of the user.
We cannnot delete any folder on her laptop from windows itself.
We can delete it from comand prompt.
When we look at the properties of folder, it has read-only attribute. After
unchecking that, and hit enter, it reverts back to read-only.
We could not delete folder.
Other hand, we can delete any files within it or anywhere.
It doesn't give any error message, folder will just stay there.

Tried different profile--no use
tried disjoining and rejoining the domain - no use.
Ran chkdsk - no use.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please note that we have about 500 users with same XP Image and only one
user has this problem.
Thanks

Sunny

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

It may be a refresh problem. The "read only" attribute has nothing to do
with it - that behavior is normal as that attribute is ignored by Windows as
it relates to folders. If you are able to delete from the command prompt
within that user profile, then it's not a permissions issue either. If you
delete it a second time, do you get an error message?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Hi there.

Try C:\>calcs c:\TARGET to the folder /t /g everyone:f

that would reset permissions on the specified folders/subfolders to EVERYONE
FULL ACCESS