Vista and Desktop EXE Deletion

zenkick
18th September 2007 04:17 UTC

Vista and Desktop EXE Deletion
Under Vista, I'm attempting to perform a:

Delete "$DESKTOP\foo.exe"

But it appears that it doesn't work.

I have:

RequestExecutionLevel admin

set, and it doesn't matter if I change the context

SetShellVarContext all

which should default to the local user if there aren't perms.

I'm using the most recent 2.30 release.

Suggestions?

Joel
18th September 2007 04:36 UTC

maybe foo.exe is in used

zenkick
18th September 2007 05:36 UTC

no, foo.exe is not in use.

Anders
18th September 2007 15:15 UTC

use

MessageBox mb_ok "$DESKTOP\foo.exe"

and make sure the path is correct

which should default to the local user if there aren't perms.

Where did you read this? As far as I know, it only gives the user's path for older systems (From helpfile "The all users folder may not be supported on all OSes. If the all users folder is not found, the current user folder will be used.")

Wizou
19th September 2007 09:49 UTC

open a command box
and type "del " followed by the path displayed by the messagebox for $DESKTOP\foo.exe (enclosed in quotes)

what does it say ?

or maybe it's a shortcut... foo.exe.lnk ?