Hi. I did a full restore of my C drive. I have a gateway and the operating
system is XP Home SP2.

Now, a number of my shortcuts "cannot find target file." When I open the
properties of the shortcut from the Start|All Programs list, it is going
right to the correct folder and right .exe file. The problem ones cannot
access the folder though, and show up as generic icons. When I click down to
'C:\Program Files' things are fine. Then, when I try to access the program
folder itself, it will not let me open it up but pops up a dialog box -
something to the effect of me not being authorized to (I can't remember the
exact language). It was not like this before re-installing the operating
system. All these programs operated without issue and could be launched from
any account.

All the shortcuts now operate correctly on the Owner account. It is the
other accounts that are a problem, and one of them is even Administrator
level.

This is very frustrating. Any ideas?

Thanks.

This may help:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/system_v...on_folder1.htm

-use technique on ProgramFiles folder

-But really this shouldn't be the issue

What's happened is that MSoftWin when 1st installed makes the ADMIN account
(which really isn't an account - it's built in) then a frist user account
with ADMIN priveledges. The first user account is the one that installed all
your software (I would presume) and delegated wether or not other users on
the computer can use the specified software. - sadly now with your system
restore stuff your registry entries pertaining to user accounts software
setups are gone and each user including the first user is in the default
clean setup, with the exception of Local Machine and Root still having
whatever software you had installed still there. (Msoft Never Envisage family
type computers to have to go throught a CD system restore)

I reccomend exporting the USER registry branch on the first user account and
importing it on each user - that should bring back the registry the way it
was with each software install.

Why you can't acces the Program Files folder though is a Mystery - you sure
it's not just that default HTML screen of blue saying that you shouldn't
acces this folder because you can do damage (like the one you have for
WINDOWS and SYSTEM32 when you first start windows?)

Anyway hope this helps.

--
Computer Nerd that services Grannies


"sbrener" wrote:

> Hi. I did a full restore of my C drive. I have a gateway and the operating
> system is XP Home SP2.
>
> Now, a number of my shortcuts "cannot find target file." When I open the
> properties of the shortcut from the Start|All Programs list, it is going
> right to the correct folder and right .exe file. The problem ones cannot
> access the folder though, and show up as generic icons. When I click down to
> 'C:\Program Files' things are fine. Then, when I try to access the program
> folder itself, it will not let me open it up but pops up a dialog box -
> something to the effect of me not being authorized to (I can't remember the
> exact language). It was not like this before re-installing the operating
> system. All these programs operated without issue and could be launched from
> any account.
>
> All the shortcuts now operate correctly on the Owner account. It is the
> other accounts that are a problem, and one of them is even Administrator
> level.
>
> This is very frustrating. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>