Past few months I had one problem which I always overlooked thinking it will auto correct and the problem is with couple of old folders which I have deleted but stay right there and refuse to get deleted ( Obviously, You cannot die twice!! ). I have tried lot of stuff right from registry to cleaning software and all failed. I finally took a shelter with the good old command prompt to see if it works and it actually did. Below is a video and instruction on how it worked.

Step 1 : Delete files inside that folder :

• If you do not have any file inside it, skip this step.
• Type CMD in your Windows Start Menu. You will see cmd.exe listed. Right click and start as administrator.
• Now navigate to the folder where this notorious folder is visible.
• Type in “dir/x” to see the list of files. /x is used to see the full name.
• If you type in the full name after del command, it doesn’t work.
• Note down the short name of the file is appears left to the full name. It will be in old windows format * 8.1*
• Type del shortname of the folder.
• It will prompt that it will delete all the files inside it. Type Y. This will delete all the files from the folder.

Step 2: Delete the folder :

• RMDIR is the command which can delete any directory.
• Now I could have used it directly but since it not work when the files were in that folder, I chose to delete the files first.
• Now Type in RMDIR “shortname” of that folder.
• This will remove the folder now.
• In case it shows, reboot and it should be gone.

Video Demo :

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