W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

cannot run remove onedrive "cannot remove item" "access to path denied"

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#222 opened on Dec 19, 2019

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I followed all of the steps correctly and am using admin powershell, yet i get this set of errors everytime.

Remove-Item : Cannot remove item C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft-windows-onedrive-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1
_none_01f25b79d7a97c4b\OneDriveSetup.exe: Access to the path 'OneDriveSetup.exe' is denied.
At C:\Users\SU\Downloads\Debloat-Windows-10-master\Debloat-Windows-10-master\scripts\remove-onedrive.ps1:61 char:5
+     Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $item.FullName
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (OneDriveSetup.exe:FileInfo) [Remove-Item], UnauthorizedAccessExceptio
   n
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemUnAuthorizedAccess,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand
Remove-Item : Cannot remove item
C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft-windows-onedrive-setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1_none_01f25b79d7a97c4b: The
directory is not empty.
At C:\Users\SU\Downloads\Debloat-Windows-10-master\Debloat-Windows-10-master\scripts\remove-onedrive.ps1:61 char:5
+     Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $item.FullName
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (C:\WINDOWS\WinS...1f25b79d7a97c4b:DirectoryInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

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Research direction
Investigate the error at line 61 of remove onedrive.ps1. The script fails to delete OneDriveSetup.exe from WinSxS due to permission denied. Consider using takeown or icacls to acquire ownership before deletion, or run the script as SYSTEM. Review comments in issue #222 for potential solutions.
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