Good morning everyone,
My inquiry is regarding how to remove a folder from
C:\Program Files when I continue receiving an "
Access Denied" message.
Problem Description:
All actions described here were performed while logged in under my Windows Default Administrator account.Yesterday evening (3/23), I downloaded & installed a temperature/fan speed monitoring application called,
SpeedFan. After looking through the program for about 20 minutes, I closed it and went to run the
Speccy program on my machine.
On all but two of the system specification items there was a
red error message displayed which read, "
Cannot initialize spc.dll." I then uninstalled the
SpeedFan program via the Add/Remove Programs option in the Control Panel.
I tried running
Speccy again with the same error messages being shown. I uninstalled the Speccy program via
Add/Remove Programs option, then went to delete the Speccy folder in
C:\Program Files. A dialog box opened advising me that removing the folder might cause some programs not to function properly and asked if I wanted to proceed. I clicked <
CONTINUE>. I received the
Access Denied message yet again.
I then went to the Piriform website and downloaded the Speccy program again. When I ran the program, once again the same aforementioned error messages appeared.
I ran
quick scans with both Avast! (free), MBAM Pro, & SAS. All scans were clean.
My question:
How can I remove the Speccy folder from C:\Program Files in this situation?Thank you for your time and any recommendations!