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Richard West
Asked: 2010-09-21 08:53:40 +0800 CST

"You need to confirm this operation" message when trying to delete a file

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I'm trying to delete a few files that I created, and I have full permissions on, on a Windows 2008 system.

The files are within a folder that I created so they are not system files of any kind.

The message box that pops up when I try to delete the file is titled "Destination Folder Access Denied", and the message is "you need to confirm this operation", with a continue, skip or cancel button.

I disabled UAC and rebooted to see if this would make the message go away -- it did not. However, with UAC disabled I am able to click on continue and the files are deleted.

With UAC enabled I had to provide elevated credientials before the files would delete.

What causes this behaviour and how can I remove it?

windows-server-2008 uac

1 Answers

  1. Are you trying to delete files from the Windows folders or the Program Files folders or some other protected folder?

    There's really no way to stop this if you are deleting from a system folder as Windows is trying to make sure that you don't destroy the OS by accident.

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