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I have set up two folders in the start menu "MENU A to L" and "MENU M to Z". I move Short cuts to these folders from the "Programs" folder. After I did the folders were empty after moving them. Now I cannot do any thing with the folders. It will not let me delete them or move them back to programs.

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W. Watson wolf_tra...@invalid.com microsoft public windowsxp general Somehow I have two HP StartUp folders in All Programs under the Start Menu. It cannot be deleted. I click OK, of course. The other folder is for programs related to my HP 6100 all-in-one printer. -- Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA) Web Page:

Slow start-up times
Well, I can't. The folder is shown in the Start Menu, but I cannot get a (right-click) context menu for it. Opening it in Windows Explorer shows it is empty (*Yes*, I have set my system to display hidden and system files), yet I cannot rename or delete the folder. When trying to copy something to it or change

hijackthis---cannot uninstall devices and windows installer ...
I just installed a program and it created a folder that i can't delete in the start menu! I can't even right click on it from the start menu! So i clicked Explore All Users on the start menu, right clicked, and pressed delete, and i got this error: "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk" I

System File error (1026)
ta...@oanet.com ta...@cronus.oanet.com alt windows95 John Mahoney wrote: Hi, I been having a problem for a few days where on the start menu of win95 I cannot delete a folder!!! The message I get is cannot delete files or folders and notthing exist!!! Please could somone help me?? Thank you It's possible that you've

Start Menu
If NAV95 is the only Symantec product on your system, you can also delete the \Symantec folder. Remove NAV from the Start Menu: Follow these steps to remove I am not able to delete \Northon AntiVirus in my Explorer, it came up with this error message: Cannot delete apwcmd: access is denied. make sure the disk

What is the best installation folder for an Active-X-Exe?
I think i'm struggling around the permissions of the share this folder is redirected to, whether one user changing the start menu will affect all users No - each user gets his/her own. Well, that depends on how you configure it. I have always used a single read-only redirected start menu. Users cannot change

Strange Folder Behaviour - Cannot Delete File
Guillermo gmozav...@hotmail.com microsoft public win2000 general I guess I also learned that the admin tools "folder" that I have in the start menu is a link to Then I tried to move it and created a copy in a subfolder of that menu. Now I cannot delete either because it says "It's a windows system folder and

Grouping Menu Items on the Star Menu All Programs`
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cannot delete folders on startup page
With only his StartMenu/Programs folder offering the program then only if he has granted the others access to this folder will they be able to run the program. Awww, think about that for a minute If the user simply navigates to c:\program files\blah\ and double-clicks on blah.exe he can run the program. -) I'm not

Deleting Taskbar Items
Wesley Vogel 123WVogel...@comcast.net microsoft public windowsxp basics You cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume 2006, which as part of its installation installed an entry on my Start Menu, "ACT! 2006", that I cannot delete. I tried renaming it -- didn't work.

Warning Not to Delete What Seems Like an Empty Menu in All ...
Profiles for start menu, desktop, and all that stuff, and Userdata for my documents and other files. I do not prescribe to Windows' default mess of mixing Users can't even write to Program Files or to most of the built-in folders. It's stupid and unpractical, and merely causes people to delete their program

Cannot delete files .
I have set up two folders in the start menu "MENU A to L" and "MENU = M to Z". I move Short cuts to these folders from the "Programs" folder. After I did the folders were empty after moving them. Now I cannot do any = thing with the folders. It will not let me delete them or move them back to = programs.

Cannot delete folder
In that case, why not just append what --show-cdup returns, but _only_ if it is a relative path? (It can show an absolute path, too.) At first, no, I'm interested in the parent of .git. At second, the reason for this function is to figure out path to a file or a folder, relative to the parent of .git.

Msconfig -cannot delete entry
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:11:32 +0100, "j.bolaky" <j.bol...@ntlworld.com> wrote: Having problems deleting previous files after going from, start menu to find,then to find folders or files. After typing in files i am looking for i cannot delete them. Sounds simple, but no can do. many thanks Jay.

Can't delete file..HELP!
nevermore quoth.the.ra...@rogers.com microsoft public windowsxp basics Peter, I can delete items under the Start Up Folder. I simply cannot delete the Start Menu Folder itself. And thus I have two Start Up Folders on the All Programs listing in the Start Menu. There is no doubt that this is do to my attempts at

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(1) Delete the folders and files found here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$MICROSOFTBCM (Note: Where the MSSQL$MICROSOFTBCM is the Database .... For that matter, I can not find a user that it is configured for at all anymore. Where can I re-start the Outlook Contact Manager since I have spent a better

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Arthur Kopp artn...@mindsprung.com alt comp virus On Wed, 10 May 2000 00:52:15 +0200, "BSR" <B...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: NORTON antivirus cannot delete this virus If you are unsure how to do this, select Help from the Start menu, click on the Index tab then, under Win95, enter "hidden files, viewing" or under Win98

Startup icon
It was a mp3 file in my Documents and Settings/All Users/ Start Up/Programs/Music Folder. I tried to delete it and it and it would not even give me the option when I right clicked. And the file name is incredibly long. Named Britney Spears, Monica, ..... so on and so on. I can thank my niece for downloading that

uninstalling
Jim Lee M...@nothere.com microsoft public windowsxp basics I have set up two folders in the start menu "MENU A to L" and "MENU M to Z". After I did the folders were empty after moving them. Now I cannot do any thing with the folders. It will not let me delete them or move them back to programs.