It’s obviously corrupted. If you can’t delete it move it to another folder somewhere and isolate it.

You should run a good drive analysis & repair program on it, to find out what is going on, and whether it is a fixable file system problem, some evil Windows 10 behavior, or a hardware problem.

Especially because, if it’s a hardware problem, you’ll want to get your data backed up to some stable drive before it dies.

Agree with @zaku. If your disk is 8 years old it’s probably time to back it up.

You could try it with the command prompt.

open the start menu, and type in “cmd”
the window that opens looks like this

find out what the filename is, including the file extension.
then find out where exactly it is located

So let us say the file is named ”picture.jpg”, and is located in the folder ”folder2”, and ”folder2” is located in ”folder1”, on the drive with the letter ”d”,

you would enter this line:

del d:\folder1\folder2\picture.jpg

then press enter, and the file should be gone.

Thanks. I figured there was a back door, just didn’t know how to get to it.

so, did it work?

I have to get the disc back out and find it again. Getting sidetracked with other stuff, but this is book marked. Thanks.

You can try renaming the file with a different extension. For example, if it’s now a .jpg, change it to a .png. Sometimes, little tricks like that work.

I had an undeletable file on my Windows 10 computer this week, tried multiple methods to remove it, and the only thing that worked was booting into safe mode, and deleting it from there. Rather than installing new software, I’d recommend exhausting all other options first.

Digging it back out now. I actually copied all of the good files to a folder on my computer and I’d just as soon delete the whole folder now.
I’ll let you know, guys.

Crap. Can’t rename it because it’s read only. When I removed that it said I needed admin permission / continue it just denied me. I checked admin controls on the control panel, have NO idea where to star with that, so I’ll try Raggies way.

That’s odd – if it’s your own computer, you should be the administrator, and have the permissions that go with that, unless you set up a different role for general use. If you have two different roles, you should be able to log out of your Windows session, then choose which role to log in under next.

If you right-click the folder, and go to Properties, the permissions will be listed under the Security tab. As the administrator, you can change permissions for whatever it is you want to delete.