File deletation anoyance

[Red Squirrel]

I'm trying to delete a bunch of folders with .del in the name. Because these are user profiles I don't have access to all files in them so it wont let me delete.

Is there a tool that will let me do a force delete? I really don't want to have to manually take ownership of every single one, it will take too long. I am the administrator, I should be able to do what I want, I hate how MS limits access even to the admin. At least in Linux root has access to anything even if it's chmodded 000.

 

[pcgeek11]

I'm trying to delete a bunch of folders with .del in the name. Because these are user profiles I don't have access to all files in them so it wont let me delete.

Is there a tool that will let me do a force delete? I really don't want to have to manually take ownership of every single one, it will take too long. I am the administrator, I should be able to do what I want, I hate how MS limits access even to the admin. At least in Linux root has access to anything even if it's chmodded 000.

Boot with a live linux CD and mount the volume, then delete the files. Linux won't care.

pcgeek11

 

[Red Squirrel]

Can't really do that on a live file server 😛 Normally this is what I do in non critical availability systems like home and what not.

 

[MrChad]

Subinacl.exe might be useful for a batch script to take ownership of the files, especially if there is a common pattern to the file names. You can also download it as part of the Windows 2003 Resource Kit.