Windows 10: Virtualized folder remains

How do I remove my old Win 7 Users directory? Like:

D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\shellext

Win 7 is already gone (I'm basically just cleaning out my old disk). MS is very aggressively preventing me from deleting this folder, though (via Win 10).

How do I get rid of this old stuff?

Thx.

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How can I remove my old Virtualized shellext directory? error: But it can't be renamed/removed. The problem is always a "File not found" error when it hits the 'shellext '

How can I remove my old Virtualized shellext directory? Like:

D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\shellext

The trailing shellext folder has an empty space at its end, and is actually called "shellext ". But it can't be renamed/removed. The problem is always a "File not found" error when it hits the 'shellext ' folder. Like

takeown /f "shellext " /r /D Y

ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.

No attributes can be set on it, it can't be renamed (not on prompt, nor in Explorer, nor using 7-Zip or something). And it really has a trailing space (checked that by outputting dir command to file). Nor will a del *.* (on higher directories) work on it.

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Virtualized folder remains

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Near as I can tell, it's the last 'shellext' dir that cannot be found:


D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local>cacls Microsoft /L /T /G Everyone:F
Are you sure (Y/N)?y
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\D
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\D\Users
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\D\Users\Me
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\D\Users\Me\AppData
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\D\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming
processed dir: D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\D\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox
The system cannot find the file specified.

 

C'mon, guys, where are the experts here?! *Smile

 

The trailing shellext folder has an empty space at its end, and is actually called "shellext ". But it can't be renamed/removed. Like

rd /s "shellext\ "

The system cannot find the file specified.

Someone, please help me with this?! Been looking at this for days!

 

Try opening an elevated ("run as administrator") command prompt and use:

rmdir D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox /s

or maybe:

rmdir "D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox" /s

You might have to use this first if the folder contains hidden or system files:

attrib -h -s D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox /s

or

attrib -h -s "D:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox" /s

 

Thanks for your reply. *Smile

I tried all of that before (and much more); but the problem is always a "File not found" error when it hits the 'shellext ' folder. Like

takeown /f "shellext " /r /D Y
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.

No attributes can be set on it, it can't be renamed (not on prompt, nor in Explorer, nor using 7-Zip or something). And it really has a trailing space (checked that by outputting dir command to file). Nor will a del *.* (on higher directories) work on it.

 

Maybe boot from a Linux live USB/DVD?

 

You'll need to deal with it outside Windows permissions. Hence NavyLCDR's suggestion of using a boot disk.

You could also use a Win 10 installation medium and boot to a command prompt, or from Win 10, SHIFT + Restart and navigate to a command prompt via Troubleshoot.

 

I must admit I'm not that familiar with how to mount an NTFS disk under Linux. (Been running a FreeBSD server for years, but that didn't include adding Windoze disks).

 

Thanks! *Smile I created an Ubuntu Live USB, and was able to remove the old directory, no sweat! *Smile Probably should have done this right off the bat, instead of continuing to muck around with the Windoze permissions. Ubuntu even auto-mounted the volumes for me, so I could just use its regular file explorer.

 

Glad it worked for you!