How come (in Vista) deleting files seems to be broken? The OS likes to decide that an application is still referencing a file that I am trying to delete, thus elevating to admin control. I hit continue, say yes, I am sure I want to do this and still nothing happens. Vista decides that it still can’t delete the file. This is great if I am using the file somewhere, but generally I am not when this happens. I can open the folder, select the files and delete them without elevation. I can then step back up a directory to the one that did elevate and delete without a problem.

So why didn’t it delete in the first place?