Can't delete folder

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Bob H

Hi,
since I merged 2 partitions sometime ago, during that process I had
to give a name to a folder or something in PM. Anyway, whats happend is
that win2k thinks it is a system folder and defaults to that folder for
my documents. I have searched the registry but there is no reference to
the said folder. I can rename it, shorten it and do most things except
delete it. I did actually delete it in safe mode, but it re produced
itself again when I booted normally.

Is there any real way I can get rid of this folder for good?

Thanks
 
Bob said:
since I merged 2 partitions sometime ago, during that process I had
to give a name to a folder or something in PM. Anyway, whats happend is
that win2k thinks it is a system folder and defaults to that folder for
my documents. I have searched the registry but there is no reference to
the said folder. I can rename it, shorten it and do most things except
delete it. I did actually delete it in safe mode, but it re produced
itself again when I booted normally.

Is there any real way I can get rid of this folder for good?
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Depends on the folder and what program you have that is re-creating it.
 
You should right click on the My Documents folder on your desktop and
redirect it to another folder. I imagine once you do this you will be able to
reboot and then delete this folder. Once you reboot windows should not see
this folder as a system folder. You can also change the folder attributes by
running attrib -s c:\PM on it and it will remove the System attribute. Good
luck.
 
Plato said:
Depends on the folder and what program you have that is re-creating it.
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The folder is named anything you like; I called it f****it just to see
what would happen. It was called 'My Documents', but I already have a
folder called that.
When I rebooted back in normal mode Win2k recreated the folder with the
same name.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
 
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