Vista crashed twice on me and I restored it twice. Both times it created a
huge backup of most of the C drive and stored them in a folder called BACKUP
on the root of C: These files contain copies of the Programs directory and
the Windows directory that I cannot delete. I tried deleting them with
elevated privileges and that didn't work. I reinstalled the operating
system from the cd that came with my computer and they're still there. The
computer will boot up and run but it doesn't run right and strange things are
happening on it. I'm sure it's because I now have 3 copies of the Programs
and Windows directories. How can I get rid of those Backup files?

Hi,
Take ownership of those files then delete.
--
Paul


"Stan" wrote:
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> Vista crashed twice on me and I restored it twice. Both times it created a
> huge backup of most of the C drive and stored them in a folder called BACKUP
> on the root of C: These files contain copies of the Programs directory and
> the Windows directory that I cannot delete. I tried deleting them with
> elevated privileges and that didn't work. I reinstalled the operating
> system from the cd that came with my computer and they're still there. The
> computer will boot up and run but it doesn't run right and strange things are
> happening on it. I'm sure it's because I now have 3 copies of the Programs
> and Windows directories. How can I get rid of those Backup files?
>
>[/color]

See this tutorial.
[url]http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html[/url]
--
Paul


"Stan" wrote:
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> Vista crashed twice on me and I restored it twice. Both times it created a
> huge backup of most of the C drive and stored them in a folder called BACKUP
> on the root of C: These files contain copies of the Programs directory and
> the Windows directory that I cannot delete. I tried deleting them with
> elevated privileges and that didn't work. I reinstalled the operating
> system from the cd that came with my computer and they're still there. The
> computer will boot up and run but it doesn't run right and strange things are
> happening on it. I'm sure it's because I now have 3 copies of the Programs
> and Windows directories. How can I get rid of those Backup files?
>
>[/color]