How to delete the folder using vc++

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i want to delete the IE history.
It located in that path.

C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Local Settings\History

If i try to delete means it provide system not find the path.
and i can't able to delete ..

can you help me .

i am using msdev editor

Posted 4-Oct-11 2:22am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-04T06:07:00

If you say "system not find the path", it means you may not have enough privileges. You need to run your application with elevated privileges. On Windows 7 (Vista?) logging in with administrator account is not enough.

See this article for nearly all available options to run your program as administrator: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html[^].

Back to deleting files, you may need to take ownership of the directory and give yourself the right to delete. See this discussion: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-delete-a-system-file-in-windows-vista/[^].

Programmatically, you can run the commands takeown and cacls using Windows API CreateProcess. You can put the commands in one batch file, substitute username and directory name and run the file using CreateProcess.

—SA