Browsing through my folders today I have noticed some files that I don't want to have anymore. So I tried to delete them. To my great surprise the system said that I need permission from Alice to perform the action. I am Alice. Needless to say I log in as administrator, I tried to change ownership to myself (it was already set that way anyway). Useless. I tried a couple of third party utilities. In vain. I tried command prompt line. Futile. I tried to change attributes but it did not let me.
But I don't give up easily. I knew there must be a way short of reinstalling the whole system. Well, I found it though it is quite roundabout but that problem was driving me crazy. I hate it when the machine tells me that I am not a master of my computer.
The solution is to
download Ubuntu system and burn it on CD. I already happened to have a CD from previous experiments with Linux. Nice thing about it is that you don't have to install Linux if you don't want to (I didn't). You just boot "try Ubuntu" option right from CD, open Linux correspondence of explorer and voila! Problem solved.
The file was not system file, in fact it was created by me, there was no reason to behave like that whatsoever. Anyway, if that information helped someone, it was worth writing this post.
