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Windows 11 won't let me delete a folder even though I'm the admin
I've got a folder on my Windows 11 PC that refuses to delete. Every time I try, it says I need permission from myself—which makes no sense since I'm the only account on this machine and it's an admin...
hi
open command prompt as administrator and take ownership: takeown /f "folder path" / r /d y
give administrators full control: icacls "folder path" /grant Administrators : F /t /c
remove read-only attributes: attrib -r -s -h "folder path" /s /d
then delete the folder: rmdir /s /q "folder path"
hope this will work out.