You like to have your C: partition (that’s the system drive, after all) in order. Among other things, to have and keep sufficient free space on that partition. You are sometimes thwarted by folders and files that cannot be cleaned. That’s annoying! Delete.On.Reboot can help.
You just run into it: stubborn folders and files that cannot be thrown away. You’ve already tried Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, and PowerShell. And yet it is impossible to remove those folders and files from your hard drive. To drive you crazy! Especially if you could recover the necessary GBs with it…
Before we offer the solution, let’s first give a few backgrounds, in other words the answer to the question: why can’t those folders and files be deleted? First of all, it is possible that you (read: your user account within Windows 10) do not have sufficient rights. User accounts like the administrator and anyway the system are your boss. Also, it is not possible to delete files that are currently open and in use. And let’s not forget malware – which may be running at the time. Anyway, if files cannot be removed, the associated folders cannot be removed either.
Windows 10 too fast
The solution is obvious: you have to be quick with Windows 10. That means as much as you delete the folders and files before Windows 10 has restarted. Because only if Windows 10 and all co-starting apps are active, the aforementioned blockage is only really active. Indeed, for those reasons, for example, a bootable virus scanner is used. Go to the website www.softwareok.com and download the installer for your amount of bits: 32 or 64.
Immediately afterwards you can install Delete.On.Reboot, start it and set it up in Dutch, where you also indicate that you are an expert (…) who knows what he is doing. And that’s not all, because via the menu options Extras and Add to menu Send to Explorer ensure a Delete.On.Reboot integration with Windows Explorer.
Select and restart
From now on it will be fast. For example, open the root directory of the C: partition. In that place you will (as a self-proclaimed expert) always find some folders and files that shouldn’t be there. Make – optionally – a selection with Explorer, right click and go to the context menu option Copy to and Delete.On.Reboot. If you then go to the work window of Delete.On.Reboot, you will see that the selection made has already been placed in the list of folders and files to be deleted. A push on the button Restart the PC now is then sufficient to really and definitively clean up that list! Yes, it can be that simple…
