Hello Bree and thank you for your reply.
I remember reading this about ghost files on the forum here. I will look at the work around you suggest, if its not too technical I will give that a go........

Hello again, last week I ticked this as Solved because I was helped/informed that the Padlock is the Icon for Temporary Internet Files.... A light bulb went on!

but I still have the problem where...

Thank you shim shom... I have now added "Take ownership" thing to the menu when I right click on it.

Thank you Eagle 51. You said the padlock is the Icon ?? It cannot be removed? Makes sense to me...

Hello to you.
This is my first time ever on a forum because I usually just Google any computer problems I have but this Padlock issue is not so easy to solve. Hoping someone can help?

I have the...