Windows Oncare

[Jonah]

Hi,

I was using Windows Oncare but in the end got feedup with it. The virus program was  bad and it also slowed my machine down. So I unstalled it but was left with a problem. The backup feature of course did not delete the onecare backup files.

So I thought no problem just remove them manually. No way !! Eventually I found a way to do it, after much research on the Web.

So if you need a way hope these work for you.

By enabling file sharing and sharing the backup folder, it changed security properties and allowed me to delete it. Don?t forget to disable file sharing again after.

If Not....

Use the command line command that I had never heard of: cacls. This command can modify the Access Control List. It should be used like this to make the files under the Windows OneCare Backup directory eraseable.

cacls ?G:\Windows OneCare Backup? /t /g administrators:F

Here are a couple of things you should note:

G is the external drive letter. Change it to what your external drive is assigned to.
There must be a space between /t and /g.
Note that administrators is the group name, not administrator which is an account name
The F after the colon indicates Full Control. It is not a drive designation
?cacls? command will only work with NTFS formated disks

Lastly thanks to Microsoft for allowing me to pay for another substandard product which allowed quite some virus and adware to my machine and everything I had to do to cleanup.

Anyone else can share anything on this

[Ryan]

thanks for sharing 
ill move it to correct board section