title: Delete a folder that lost its owner
body: <p>I have found myself in a somewhat unique situation.</p>
  
  <p>I have a folder. This folder, somehow, lost its owner.</p>
  
  <p>In "Advanced Security Settings for FOLDER" under "Current owner:" is displayed: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Unable to display current owner.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to delete this folder with no success. I have tried taking ownership with both my user and the Administrator user and both yield</p>
  
  <pre><code>Unable to set new owner on FOLDER, Access is denied
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried to grant administrator full privileges via the Windows shell running as administrator:</p>
  
  <pre><code>icacls FOLDER /grant administrators:F
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I have tried to remove the folder via the Windows shell running as administrator: </p>
  
  <pre><code>rmdir FOLDER /s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which return: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Access is denied
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any idea as to how I can delete this folder?</p>