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Cannot delete flash9.ocx

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202613966 views
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Some kinda voodoo, indeed. Bought a new boot drive, and it's time to use the old drive for data. I thought I'd save some time by just wiping the unneeded system folders, instead of backing up, formatting, and restoring. Wups! I have a single Adobe file that absolutely will not be deleted. G:\Window…

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Fix for: Cannot delete flash9.ocx

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As it turns out, there were a couple of explicit "deny" permissions in the box. I'd forgotten that those override the "allow"s. Got rid of those and I was able to delete the file without a problem. Kind of embarrassing that I didn't see them before!

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