Unable to delete an unwanted folder/application

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1940LaSalle

I found recently that, as a result of surfing, I'd gotten
an unwanted toolbar application downloaded onto my hard
drive. Fortunately, it came with its own "uninstall"
routine, which I ran immediately. However, if I try to
simply delete the folder in which this application
resides--or the application itself--now that the
uninstall is complete, I get an error message telling me
that I'm not authorized to do so. Punch line: I'm logged
in on my own machine as the administrator!

CleanSweep doesn't see the unwanted toolbar application,
so that's no help. Right now it's sitting there
silently, but I want this sucker gone once and for all.

One other thing: I don't want to go to the site where
this came from in the first place for a variety of
reasons, but the chief one is that I don't want this fool
thing to be revived and show up again.
 
1940LaSalle said:
I found recently that, as a result of surfing, I'd gotten
an unwanted toolbar application downloaded onto my hard
drive. Fortunately, it came with its own "uninstall"
routine, which I ran immediately. However, if I try to
simply delete the folder in which this application
resides--or the application itself--now that the
uninstall is complete, I get an error message telling me
that I'm not authorized to do so. Punch line: I'm logged
in on my own machine as the administrator!

CleanSweep doesn't see the unwanted toolbar application,
so that's no help. Right now it's sitting there
silently, but I want this sucker gone once and for all.

One other thing: I don't want to go to the site where
this came from in the first place for a variety of
reasons, but the chief one is that I don't want this fool
thing to be revived and show up again.
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Adaware and Spybot.
 
have you tried taking ownership of the folder while logged in as
Administrator?
 
OK, bear with me: not sure I understand fully. What
you're saying is to hit F8 during the boot-up process,
which will put me in safe mode. If I do that, then I
should be able to go into Explorer, find the unwanted
folder and its contents, and delete it.

Then, a shutdown should allow me to re-boot in normal
mode, correct?
 
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