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Problem: I’ve decided to re-install windows because of some issues. My new install is ok but I can’t delete the directory of my old windows anymore! Solution: The folder you are trying to delete has it’s administrative privileges locked from your previous windows. You could change the ownership of your folder by right clicking on the folder -> Properties -> Security -> Advanced -> Owner -> Edit -> Select Administrator and put a check on “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects” An Easier Solution: You can also do a command prompt to remove the ownership which is a more straightforward process. To do this, press your window’s Start button, type “cmd”, right click on the “cmd” program that shows up, right click and select run as administrator (running the command prompt with administrator privileges is important). In the command prompt, enter the following command: cacls “c:\WINDOWS.OLD” /t /g administrators:F Note: Don’t forget to change the drive letter...

How many times has it happened with you that you want to cancel a print job, but when you right click on the print job to end the job, it just does nothing and you are also unable to print anything. In short your print queue gets jammed – neither can you print anything nor cancel the pending print jobs. Clear Print job queue You have 4 options ! 1) Reboot.   This solves the problem and most usually do this. 2) Manually flush the print queue. Type  services.msc  in Windows start menu search bar and hit enter to open Services. Navigate down to Print Spooler. Rt click on this services and ‘Stop’ this service. Next navigate to  C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS  folder and delete all the CONTENTS of this folder. Now rt click again on the Print Spooler service and restart it. Refresh the print queue. Your problem should have been solved.  3) Copy-paste the following in Notepad and save it as a .bat file: @echo off echo Stopping pri...