Very glad to find this forum.
I am a new to Windows 7 and new to forums as well so please forgive while I learn the ropes.
My problem is basically this: I want to remove "Windows XP Mode" from my system but my situation is not the one generally assumed on help pages for removing "XP...
Just checking with you all I'm doing the right thing. Sometimes my W7 PC won't delete something. It will say preparing to delete but will stay stuck like this, or it will say file in use when I know it's not. In this case I start windows in safe mode my hitting F8 during boot an am then able to...
Strange issue. In my downloads folder, I had one folder of icons from an unziped zip file (clean of antivirus or spyware). Strange enough, I now cannot delete the actual folder and sub-folders! I even replicated this in safe mode too. I am on an admin account as well and have full permissions "all"...
im trying to delete Windows XP Mode base.vhd so i can replace it with a back up,
when i do this i get the you need permissions dialogue, ive used the "take ownership" but it still wont let me delete
i can and have renamed it and even the file extension but still cant delete it.]
thanks
Hello,
I have an external drive which I'm trying to reuse as a storage only medium. It's a usb drive on which at one point I managed to install a limited version of windows xp,to run on my first netbook (which I no longer use). I have put other stuff on the drive so I don't want to format it, but...