Check out ShellFolderFix

If you download unlocker from MajorGeeks, it installs a nasty browser hi-jacking Delta Toolbar, so I didn't. You can get a clean copy from IObit Unlocker, Solution for "undelete files or folders"...

D:\Misc -Harvey\4FC8C135.tmp 10.9 KB Created Sat Aug 6 2016

I don't know what it is or where it came from. I just happened to notice it today.

Thanks for your prompt responses. I enabled the administrator account but, alas, it got the same "access denied" error that I got under my profile. Windows is really being ugly about this.

Tried all of that. I downloaded the reg file because nothing else worked. takeown gives ERROR: Access is denied. Thinking about taking a chisel to the hard drive.

I am running the 64bit version of win 10 pro version 1607 build 14393.693 - English language
I have a file that won't let me delete it.
I downloaded the take ownership with pause. It installed...

look for shellFolderFix it takes care of the problem