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how to delete "folders" in wallpaper folder windows 7?
how to delete "folders" in wallpaper folder windows 7?
- I like to be able to Delete sub folder in the Web/Wallpaper/ any folder?
Any suggestion please?
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I like to be able to Delete sub folder in the Web/Wallpaper/ any folder?
Any suggestion please?
Hi
In Windows Explorer all of the folders are located at C:\Windows\Web\Wallpapers. You should be able to delete the sub folders from there.
Hope this helps.
Thank You for testing Windows 7
Ronnie Vernon MVP- Marked As Answer byRonnie VernonMVP, ModeratorWednesday, August 19, 2009 11:46 PM
- I can't
1- Denied "You need permission to perform this action"
2- Try again.
3- the same.
4- I try to modified the folder threw properties, not sure what to "check" or "unchecked"?
Any other sugestions
I use Windows 7 RC
Thanks Vernon- Marked As Answer byolmo47 Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:59 PM
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I like to be able to Delete sub folder in the Web/Wallpaper/ any folder?
Any suggestion please?
Hi
In Windows Explorer all of the folders are located at C:\Windows\Web\Wallpapers. You should be able to delete the sub folders from there.
Hope this helps.
Thank You for testing Windows 7
Ronnie Vernon MVP- Marked As Answer byRonnie VernonMVP, ModeratorWednesday, August 19, 2009 11:46 PM
- I can't
1- Denied "You need permission to perform this action"
2- Try again.
3- the same.
4- I try to modified the folder threw properties, not sure what to "check" or "unchecked"?
Any other sugestions
I use Windows 7 RC
Thanks Vernon- Marked As Answer byolmo47 Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:59 PM
I can't
1- Denied "You need permission to perform this action"
2- Try again.
3- the same.
4- I try to modified the folder threw properties, not sure what to "check" or "unchecked"?
Any other sugestions
I use Windows 7 RC
Thanks Vernon
HiYou will need administrator permission to perform these procedures because these are in the Windows system folder. If you have turned UAC off, turn it back on and it will prompt you for permissions.
You can also start Windows Explorer with administrator privileges. Go to the shortcut that you use to start Windows Explorer. Right click the shortcut and select the Run As Administrator option.
Hope this helps.
Thank You for testing Windows 7
Ronnie Vernon MVP- Thanks Vernon!
I have turned UAC on, restart computer try to do the same operations and get this :
"You require permission from "TrustedInstaller" to make change to this folder"
Sorry, the older I get the less my mind function!
2- the other not sure, if I like to start Windows Explorer I press the Windows key + E; if I right click on the windows start button, give me 2 choices:
1- Properties, 2-Open Windows Explorer.
Sorry Vernon, don't mean to wasted your time!
Olmo
- Edited byolmo47 Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:07 AMspelling
- Hi, I have the same problem. I'm the only administrator (only user) on my PC & it won't let me delete the wallpapers I don't l like. I tried turning on UAC & no change. I tired adjusting the file permissions under the properties>security tab & they are set to "read & execute" only -- not even "SYSTEM" has "full control" only "TrustedInstaller" has "full control."
Gee, I think we should be able to delete our own wallpapers.
Will - User-created folders in there should delete OK. I just tried creating/deleting folders and it worked fine, without elevated privileges necessary.
But right-clicking the Explorer icon in the 'All Programs' list and choosing 'Run as Administrator' doesn't work, if it's the system-created folders inside there you are trying to delete.
It's a whole heap of headache to get rid of them from inside Windows. It'd probably be much easier to instead perform the job from within the environment of a Ubuntu LiveCD or somesuch. That'd work, quite easily.
But, in all seriousness, if the small amount of space taken up by those folders is really a prohibitive issue for you then you simply don't have enough hard drive space available for your purposes, and you really need a bigger hard drive. If the 'problem' here is that you're just overly fastidious about having stuff on the drive which you don't use, then perhaps the problem isn't really one which Windows usage techniques can resolve!
That folder only takes up a very small amount of storage space. It's not harming anything by virtue of being there, so why bother trying to remove it?
Cheers. - Hi. BOTH the the wallpapers that came with windows7 AND the folders they are in cannot be deleted.
I guess I'm just "overly fastidious," but the again, 39MB is room for several drivers. A lot of us just want to control every aspect of our computer.
God bless,
William
- The 'folders' you refer to are also part of what I've referred to above as 'system-created' stuff.
Please don't take the following the wrong way. I'm not trying to criticise or condemn you. but some 'general' comments are warranted, in the context of this question/consideration:
* Firstly, if the user involved is not 'advanced' enough to either:
- already know how to perform the operations or...
- be able to research the problem and find the answer for himself/herself
.. then perhaps the user is one who should leave well enough alone, with respect to the various elements of the Windows installation, rather than trying to delete them. No matter how tricial a particular such 'element' might be!
* Secondly, if need actually exists to 'free up space' for just a couple of device drivers or somesuch, then the user's entire approach to operating the PC is problemmatic! A Windows install deserves to have *PLENTY* of free space always left available on the OS partition, so that the 'elbow room' is available for efficient operations. The ~40Mb of storage space used up by those particular folders/files has negligible impact. The OS install really deserves *GIGABYTES* of free psace so that it can perform efficiently!
If that amount of free space isn't already available then:
- The system partition was too small to begin with, or..
- The drive was too small to begin with, for accomodating the OS and all the useer files and program installs required or..
- the user has left much more important things unattended to, such as the cleaning up of temporary files, ensuring that programs don't permanently store temporary files, etc etc etc.
And, of course, as mentioned above, if the desire exists to remove the folders regardless of the above, it is a task best performed from within a 'LiveCD' (or similar) boot environment, rather than from within Windows itself!
