How To Fix Error Code 0x80004005 When Trying To Delete A Folder In Windows 10

thank you so much my brother from Brasil guy !

I'm having this error but when I go to the security tab is doesn't show anything but "The requested security information is either unavailable or can't be displayed." I've also noted that the folder has 0 bytes both in the size catagory and the "size on disk" catagory.

i already have access but doesnt let me delete and boy are those files taking up all my space :(

Can you do a tutorial for window 11?

Thanks man ..saved me probably another hour or so of messin around with owners and permissions ...😅 something so easy stressed me out so much smh thanks !

Something I never see is when I click on the Security tab in Properties there is no security displayed. This is a game hack folder I am trying to delete. I view this malicious. What say you @ComputerSluggishTutorials ?

if none of this works just hold shift and delete
that surprisingly is all i needed to do without having to do all this bs

Really helpful 👍

hello i dont wanna delete mine i want to extrat it but the code keeps comign up and nothing is working for me

That deserves a hit on the subscribe button and the bell from me...thats actually the folder i was trying to remove to gain that 60 odd gig...big thanks🥰

If the method mentioned above in the video isn't successful open command prompter with admin rights and try:

rmdir "\\?\path\to\directory" /S


Note: That you do need \\?\ in front of the path.

thnks man ..appreciated

Thanks! I just tried this now after having a game deleted on my pc with the files remaining in its folder. Keep up the good content!

I hate steam.

Thanks for the video!! My issue was that somehow in my fiddling, I had removed the [name]/Users listing in the Security. I added the listing again, enabled Full Access, and it worked beautifully. Thanks for you help!!

THANKS MAN THAT WORKED!! Basically a folder got created and I tried to delete it showed the same error and everything and I tried out your solution and it worked! Thanks for the tutorial, you earned a new subscriber!!

Worked perfect, I had done the change owner but not the full control, thanks I thought I had lost that space for ever 😁😁 Subbed for that. Cheers

Didn't work for me. I'm fucking steaming about now...

I've done this already... doesn't work

I still don't get the security folder when I access properties.

Thank you so much! I had a folder that was 140gb that I could not delete because of that error code! you saved me some space and taught me something new

i already have all the permissions, but i still cant delete the file, what sohuld i do? plz help

Unfortunately for me it didn't work.
In my case, I can't even access the security options.

I'm trying to delete 5 folders that were created while I downloaded a zipped file via googledrive. I extracted the files and then deleted the compressed ones. Then an error happened and it took more than 10 minutes to delete the compressed files. Only then did I realize that the files still hadn't been completely extracted and the deletion ended up corrupting them and the extracted folders.

Now, I can neither delete these folders nor download the files again.