cleaning duplicate protected files

Dennis Campbell · Post by **Dennis Campbell** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:41 pm

I have found duplicated protected files how do I remove them it seems this computer has double system files?

DigitalVolcano · Post by **DigitalVolcano** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:21 pm

I wouldn't recommend removing them unless you know they aren't required- different programs might need them in different places.

MK · Post by MK » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:01 pm

I'm receiving "files were not processed as they are Protected", however, I don't understand why Duplicate Cleaner is calling the files "protected". They are not marked read-only and are just regular files on an external USB drive.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

MK · Post by MK » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:06 pm

I've answered my own question.

I had to uncheck the "Protect DLL/EXE File" Option.

Ernie · Post by **Ernie** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:20 am

How do you remove duplicate protected files. I have over a hundred of them. Thanks

Garry Gross · Post by **Garry Gross** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:39 pm

I tried unchecking "Protect DLL?EXE File but that didn't help. Anyone with another idea.

Garry Gross · Post by **Garry Gross** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:40 pm

DC finds 900 duplicate files and all of them are protected. Nothing is being deleted.

Garry Gross · Post by **Garry Gross** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:43 pm

I duplicated a simple file three times and than ran the program. It still said that all of the duplicates were protected.

DV · Post by DV » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:38 am

They might be in your Windows or Program Files folders - there's an option to protect these too. I wouldn't use DC to delete stuff from these folders though.

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:31 am

Deleting these files is a valid operation - I've reloaded Win XP a couple of times and have just upgraded in place to Win7. Each time, a Windows.old is created, containing copies of My documents and Program Files among other things. I'm quite happy to keep a single copy of these apparently redundant files, but I now have 5 copies and my disk is getting full. I got DUplicate Cleaner specifically to help me with this problem, and it still won't delete them, even when run in Administrator mode. Is there an override?