Can't delete some transferred Windows files off Mac

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Okay, I'm new to Macs as a home user (I did however use them for video editing at my college). I've only had my new Mac Pro for four days. I have so far successfully managed to transfer all of my PC windows files across to the Mac. I can delete some of these transferred files easily enough off the Mac, but for some of them, I get a prompt asking me to type in my password. (And this applies to very ordinary files, such as .jpg or .txt. or anything at all really.) So I enter my password, and I hear the Trash sound, but the file remains on the disk!!! It won't delete! What is going on? (And I've tried Option and Shift-Option combinations also.)
 
Well I found out why I couldn't delete certain files and folders. It's because they were locked. How or why they were locked in the first place is beyond me. But at least now I can delete files!
 
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