Forced Delete - UVK does it without needing Safe Mode

[britechguy]

The subject pretty much says it.

I have been getting progressively more frustrated over the years at how Windows is not treating accounts with Administrator privileges like they actually have them. Even when I'm using a Command Prompt or PowerShell session with Run as Admin I am often forbidden to delete things I myself created via copy from another machine's drive, when it was attached as an external drive.

The hoops one has to jump through to take ownership sometimes even do not work.

I was impressed at how easy it was to nuke something that Windows itself did not allow me to nuke using UVK's Delete Files feature.

 

[Bryce W]

Rock solid software and well worth a mention. Creator is a member here on the forums too @U.V.K


Also, this is you:

 

[trevm999]

Knowing how to do things as System, and be able to check for stuck file handles is a valuable skill. However, sometimes System doesn't even have permissions. And automated help to kill 1000 file handles is appreciated.

 

[britechguy]

Well, that's one of the things that sometimes infuriates me about Windows.

For years I worked under various Unix flavors and, under any of them, when you were root you could do anything you wished in the early days. Even after a few protections were put into place to prevent things like deleting the operating system itself, you still had as close to carte blanche as was possible.

I used to have that under earlier versions of Windows, too, with Admin accounts, or at least I think I did. This could be one of those, "What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget," things.