Folder won't open.

A command line? It's 2 commands such as CD and DIR. Does that work?

Sorry I'm not familiar with a command line.

DOS was the forerunner of Windows and all commands were entered line by line at the DOS prompt.

Goto Start > All Programs > Accessories, and select Command Prompt. You will see a window with a black screen and the words C:\Documents and Settings\{Username}> with a flashing cursor at the end. ({Username} will be the name of the user account you are logged in with).

From there you can navigate to any folder on the system; eg, type in cd.. and press Enter, (that's cd followed by two periods). This moves up one level to C:\Documents and Settings>

Do that again and you get to C:\>

Then use cd foldername and press Enter to open the folder where your sub-folder(s) reside.

Use the dir command to list all files/folders inside that folder.

Use ren or del then foldername to rename or delete any folder you wish.

There's no return from a delete, no Recycle Bin. Once it is deleted it is gone.

Type in exit and press Enter to exit the Command Prompt window.

Here's a list of useful command line instructions;
http://www.ss64.com/nt/

If you can't manage that, look up MoveOnBoot in Google and see if that utility can help you. Beware, this is a very powerful tool and you can easily delete precious folders and files.

Mark

I really appreciate the time you took.

I understand the concept of following a path to a folder. When I open the command prompt window it opens to Docs and settings user name.

If I put in a folder name (or a subfolder), with or without cd.., with or without spaces, etc it does not recognize it. I'm missing something.

1. Open a command prompt (since you have you knbo3w how)

2. The prompt reads c:\Documents and Settings\yourusername>

3. Type CD \ (that is CD space backslash and press enter key)

4. The prompt changes to C:\>

5. type DIR /a:d /p (the the /a:d shortens the listing to directories only and the /p makes the screen stop at the end of the first screen of info)

6. you said "I understand the concept of following a path to a folder." so locate the directory (folder) that contains the subdirectory you are looking for - if it isn't listed on that first screen follow the prompt at the bottom of the screen to "press any key to continue ..."

7. When you locate the directory that your subdirectory falls under simply type cd "Directory that I Want" (the quotes are there because the directory name has spaces and while NT handles such without quotes sometimes user changes to the system necessitates them so use them anyway)

8. The prompt now changes to c:\Directory that I want\>

9. continue using the Dir /a:d /P and {B}CD whatever_directory until you get to where the problem is.

10. Of course if you already KNOW the full path you could immediately use that full path immediately at step 4 like cd "Directory that I want\whatever_directory\this_is_it" and the prompt would change to c:\Directory that I want\whatever_directory\this_is_it\> where you do what you want to do with the directory or file.