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How to Delete Windows OneCare Backup folder

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by yasha

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I was using Windows OneCare and now i am not using it at all (i mean i removed it from my system) but i still have backup folder which i want to delete. When i tryed to delet it say i can not delete windows OneCare. So please help me because it took 9 Gb space of my external hard drive.
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jay

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by tig2

And start deleting items one by one. Run a registry cleaner (I like CCleaner) recursively until it can't find anything else. Reboot. Go back to the folder and try deleting anything that was denied in the first round. Run your registry cleaner again.

The most likely reason that you can't delete the folder is that One Care has a process running. If you can find the process and kill it, do so. Another thing is that it is set to run at startup. Kill that too.

Two things- If you use CCleaner, make sure that you run it recursively. It will pick things up in consecutive passes. Also, it will prompt you to back up your registry. DO THIS. I put the backup on the desktop so I can find it again. You only need the first backup.

You can find CCleaner (free download) at http://www.ccleaner.com.

Good luck!

by yasha

These are the steps:
open the folder WINDOWS ONECARE IS SAVED
single click on WOC
then see left side "share This Folder" Click on it
Then click on Sharing tab
section of Network Sharing and security
share this folder on the network "check that box"
check box "allow network user to change my file"
then click apply
then ok
then select WOC folder and hit DEL
Enter yes
now its gone.

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