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Do you want to delete the folder in any possible way or only with VBScript?

I had the problem that I couldn't delete a big bunch of older windows installation files and, with the help of a real 'guru', found a working solution using shell commands - it was the only working solution I found in many months. It was a matter of broken permissions. To fix really broken permissions, the best is to run these two commands one after the other (Admin Shell):

takeown /f "C:\path\to\folder" /r
icacls "C:\path\to\folder" /reset /T

The first one will give you ownership of all the files, however that might not be enough, for example if all the files have the read/write/exec permissions set to "deny". You own the files but still cannot do anything with them. In that case (which I had) run the second command, which will fix the broken permissions.

I don't know if it would work to call these functions from VBScript, maybe it's worth a try. I'm using Win7, but for Win8.1 it should work the same.

Regards
Mick
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