Ad Aware will not delete found items

I have tried in safe mode as well. this pc was originally loaded with 1585 spy/ad/mal ware. And the trojan.sinkin virus. they had just about every spy ware from gain gator kazaa you name it this pc had it. I would orefer not doing a reinstall. PC is XP home

Are you logged in as Administrator?

If not, some of the programs may be "protected" by Windows as you would not have the required privileges.

You might even need to log on as a specific user to delete some files.

Chas

I have 5 user accounts all admin accounts. There is one account I dont recognize with admin rights it is ASP.NET A...

I also turned off system restore and still will not delete

You didn't mention OS.
I had a similar problem where Gator was the major offender. I finally went into safe mod and deleted any reference to Gator in the registry and on the C:\drive. It ot several runs of Adaware after that to clean everything out. That W98Se only had 285, you must have some kind of record for junk.
You might also want to run SpyBot http://security.kolla.de/
it finds things that Adaware doesn't and vice-versa.

Try selecting fewer items to delete... say 50 at a time.

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