Permission

Question

I'm trying to delete a bunch .dll of files from my hard drive. I'm told I need permission from system to do this? What does this mean? How can I get permission? These files are just taking up space.

Thanks

Answer 1

DLLs (dynamic link library files) are an important component of the operating system, also windows features, and programs use them. Deleting them is going to break something. One I just checked here has more that 40,000. Not sure how you are planning to make the decisions on which ones you'll keep but a much simpler solution may be to clean install it.

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Answer 2

You can take ownership but of course this is dangerous. What dll files are you wanting to delete? Make sure you understand the repercussions.

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Answer 3

It means it needs administrative rights.

Why do you like to delete DLL files? It may lead to serious functional problem of your system.

Answer 4

OK, I'm going to leave them in there. Don't want to make my computer worse than it already is.

Thank you for your response.

Answer 5

I checked how many .dll files are on my HD. There are 78,420 of them. It's difficult to understand why a system would need so many files to function.