need help with deleting

Posted: 09-27-2007, 05:32 PM

craig

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my firend came over and gave me some music files from his external hard
drive, however, he has awful taste in music and i want to delete the files!
it says i need permission!? i assumed i would be able to delete it if i didnt
want it! any way round this? (i have windows vista business)

thankyou!! craigxx

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Charlie42

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Re: need help with deleting

Posted: 09-27-2007, 06:24 PM

"craig" <craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news message:
EECCBFD2-9296-4B2B-BACE-FD63B0C9F123@microsoft.com ...

> my firend came over and gave me some music files from his external hard
> drive, however, he has awful taste in music and i want to delete the
> files!
> it says i need permission!? i assumed i would be able to delete it if i
> didnt
> want it! any way round this? (i have windows vista business)

Your friend is most likely still the owner of those files. You can find the
owner of a file by right-clicking the file > Properties > Details tab >
Owner.

Try to delete the files as administrator.

Charlie42

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