Win10 Home Edition needs administrator privileges to delete files, can t delete it?

Method steps.

As shown in the figure below,This directory should be a legacy directory in the process of win7 upgrade win10,You don't need it after the upgrade,When you delete the folder, you get an error,Prompt you need to have administrator permissions,The editor itself already has administrator permissions。

To determine that it is caused by the special permission control of system-related directories, right-click the directory that needs to be deleted in My Computer, select the bottom line of properties in the pop-up menu, and select "Security" in the top tab page in the "Properties" menu

As shown in the following figure, if the user does not have full control permission to the directory, or does not have the permission to modify or write to the write class, only the read and execute permissions cannot delete the directory.

But that's not the problem with this directory. As shown in the figure below, it is hidden here, but from the following permissions, you can still see that it has full control over the entire directory, and there is no problem of deleting permissions, so go to the next step and select Advanced below.

In the advanced menu, you can see that the current directory is owned by administrtor, not used, due to the particularity of admin's permissions, so it is impossible to delete the directory, there are only two ways to delete, one is to switch to the admin user, and the other is to change the directory owner.

Although there is admin on the machine, it is opened by a special method, and win10 home can't see it under normal circumstances, so it is recommended that ordinary users use the second option, select the change menu in the figure below.

Appears in the following figure,winmenu sometimes really big brain,It's hard to understand what to do all of a sudden,It's easy to understand when you think of the previous menu,We're here to choose which user owns the directory,Here is to help find the user,Select the "advanced" below

Continue to the next step as shown below,Find the location remains the same,Select Find Now at the top right,The system will find out all the users and user groups on this win10 (including those created by the system),Find the one used from the list below,Click OK。

The system will go back to step 6, but it has been found in the red letter position in the figure below, so understand the role of the advanced level, of course, if you know the user name, you can enter it manually, and you don't need to do the system to find these steps, click OK to return.

If there are subdirectories in the directory you want to delete, you also need to check the use inheritable permissions option below, click OK, depending on the number of files in the directory, this permission replacement process will last for a few minutes.

Wait for a few minutes for the system to prompt that the permission change is completed, you can see in the previous interface whether the owner of the directory has changed to the one just selected, and you can delete the entire directory if there is no problem, and all files and directories that cannot be deleted by the administrator can be deleted using this method.

What should I do if I need administrator privileges to delete files in win10.

win10 deletes files with administrator permissions, you need to right-click the mouse to delete files that require administrator permissions, and click on the selection attribute option in the pop-up menu list. In the Administrators Permissions column, check all the corresponding permissions, and click the OK button below to save the permissions.

1. Right-click to delete the file that requires administrator permissions, and click to select the properties option in the pop-up menu list.

2. In the Properties interface, click on Security Options.

3. Enter the security options interface and click the advanced button below.

4. In the advanced security settings interface, click the change word in the owner's row.

5. In the interface of selecting users or groups, click the Select Advanced button.

6. Under the permissions column of administrators, check all the corresponding permissions, and click the OK button below to save the permissions.

Notes:1. When setting folder permissions, in order to protect the security of the system, only set the folders to be operated.

3. When using the computer, be sure not to delete or add files at will.

1. Right-click to delete the file that requires administrator privileges, and then click in the pop-up menu list"Select Properties"Options.

2. In"attributes"interface, click"Security options"

3. Go to"Security options"screen, and then click below"Advanced"Button.

4. In"Advanced security settings"interface, click the change word for the owner line, and then click on it"Select a user or group"interface, click"Select Advanced"Button.

5. In"Select a user or group"interface, click"Find it now"Button.

7. In"attributes"interface, click"Select Administrator", click""Button.

8. In"Administrator privileges"Column, tick the appropriate permissions, and then click below"OK"button to save permissions.