It definitely looks complicated and that’s why you have to do this section right, otherwise you’ll think you set the permissions right when, in fact, they are wrong.įirst of all, go ahead and check the Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object box. Now you want to click on the Change Permissions button at the bottom left. Next you want to click on the Security tab and then click on the Advanced button. Go ahead and right-click on the folder and choose Properties. Normally this error will be related to an actual permissions problem, so let’s at least get that out of the way before trying other options. If you still can’t delete it and get the permissions error, keep reading below. If you are able to delete the folder in safe mode, it means that some process was basically holding on to the folder and preventing Windows from deleting it. Windows 8 boots differently than previous versions of Windows, so read my previous post on how to boot Windows 8 into safe mode. You can read my previous post on how to restart Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 in safe mode. The easiest thing to try first is to restart Windows in Safe Mode and try to delete the folder from there.

In this post, I’ll walk you through the different methods you can try to fix this problem, starting with the easier less-likely-to-work solutions, followed by the most-definitely, but requires-more-work solutions. Unfortunately, when dealing with the “You don’t have permission” issue, it’s either an actual permission issue or it’s because the file or folder is locked by a process. Obviously, my first thought was a permissions issue, but knowing how Windows works, you can never trust the error message either. So the administrator of the computer needs permission to delete a folder created by the administrator? Thanks Windows.

You need permission from desktop