Current Events > Can't delete a file in Windows 10. I'm the admin and only account. What do?

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Ranting Nord
11/17/17 11:05:50 AM
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Google obviously suggests I go in the properties > security > advanced and change the owner. I'd love to, except it won't let me do that either. I changed the permissions too from allow everything to deny everything and back again for giggles. Anyone got a genius fix? Turn it off and on again?
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bluezero
11/17/17 11:07:13 AM
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JE19426
11/17/17 11:07:30 AM
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Try booting into safe mode?
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Rexdragon125
11/17/17 11:10:47 AM
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Sounds like you're not supposed to delete it
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Ranting Nord
11/17/17 11:11:18 AM
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Pretty confident I'm the administrator. My account info says so. And it's a new out of the box computer. It hasn't had time to do anything. I'll try safe mode and report back.
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Questionmarktarius
11/17/17 11:14:59 AM
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Pull the HDD.
Connect it to a Linux system.
Delete file.

Alternately, you can dig around for a "Linux Live" distro and boot from disc or USB.
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Paragon21XX
11/17/17 11:16:47 AM
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What file are you trying to delete exactly?
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Ranting Nord
11/17/17 11:17:05 AM
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I can shift+delete and it comes back instantly. Recycle delete says I don't have permission. It's the Outlook autocomplete file. I do this all the time. Have it make a new GUID and copy and paste the file name onto the old file. Outlook is closed and not in task manager so I don't think it's working with it.
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