I did something stupid

[Brink]

PTRMAN,

See if taking ownership of the C:\Windows.old folder and all subfolders/files with giving your account "full control" (permission) of them, will allow you to delete them afterwards.

 

[PTRMAN]

Hasn't worked yet. I'll try it again soon in safe mode and see if that works.

 

[WirelessMouse]

I had problems with ccleaner on an old desktop, I backed everything up on my flash drive, popped in the vista dvd and reformatted it. I would recommend getting drivers first, though. Then if you have problems, just install your network driver and come on back here.

 

[Ardneh]

PTRMAN:

Have you tried using any specialty deleting utilities,
like FileAssassin or Delinvfile?

Malwarebytes.org

DelinvFile Download - Softpedia

 

[PTRMAN]

No. I haven't. I'll take a look around the interwebs to see if I can find either of those you mentioned.

FileAssassin didn't work. Delinv did manage to delete the two SecuRom files, but not the sfi.dat file within the windows.old setup. I did tell Delinv to delete it on reboot, so maybe that will work.

Thanks! 2 our of 3 issues fixed!

 

[Ardneh]

Progress.

 

[CyberZeus]

You can try this:
1) run command prompt as admin
2) try to delete the files manually like this:

delete "\\.\[path]\[filename]"

note: replace [path] with the path of the file you want to remove and replace [filename] with the filename.
I.E.:

delete "\\.\C:\Windows.old\Users\sfi.dat"

Be sure to input the correct file path, in order not to cancel important files.
Hope to be helpful

CyberZeus