links on ANY folder get "access denied"

G

Guest

To begin with, I CAN access all folders and files (e.g. in win explorer).

My problem is the following: When I create a link to ANY folder and then
“double click†it to open that folder I get an “access denied†message (or
its german equivalent: “Zugriff verweigertâ€). That goes as far as not being
able to use the “open†option for folders in the context menu of the win
start menu or that other programs that use 'linking folders' are not granted
access to those folders.

I cannot recall when or how this started. I am running xp home on fat32
partitions (--> so no user rights for me !?!) with the “my documents†folder
in a subdir of a deticated 'data partition' ...which is not the system
partition. I DID NOT REINSTALL windows or exchange the harddrive... however,
I did resize partitions at some point and also have openSUSE 10.2 on dualboot.

Anyone have an idea of what is going on or how to FIX this? I actually
managed to live with that for a while now, but linking is vital and I want it
back!

Thanks for any suggestions…
 
G

Guest

My suggestion may not work, but it won't hurt anything. (It also fixes the
problem of search opening instead of the folder.)
Go to Start/Run and type :

reg.exe add "HKCR\Drive\shell" /ve /d "none" /f
 
G

Guest

Mark L. Ferguson said:
My suggestion may not work, but it won't hurt anything. (It also fixes the
problem of search opening instead of the folder.)
Go to Start/Run and type :

reg.exe add "HKCR\Drive\shell" /ve /d "none" /f
Click to expand...


Unfortunately that didn't help ...as I expected reading about what it does.
I would also guess that I don't have a problem with "folders" in general but
rather with "links" that point to folders.

Any other suggestions?
 
G

Guest

Hi Mark,

Sorry to disappoint you (again), but as promising as this did sound indeed,
it didn't help. Nothing seems to have changed... still "access denied" on all
links to folders (as well when created as the user of the name
"administrator").

Btw. I had to change the script of Aaron to reflect the german translations
for general user group names ("administrators" -> "administratoren"), anyways
it didn't help.

Please don't give up on me ;-)
 
G

Guest

For the exact reason as to avoid the problems I am facing now, I run xp home
with fat32 partitions, so rights management should be rather limited.

However, even before posting here, I have already tried the method of
booting into safe mode and reclaiming ownership of (and setting access rights
to) my drives (incl. subfolders). Yet, as I am running fat32, it actually
seems to make sense that the owner of my folders and files wont change from
"jeder" (I guess the english equivalent is "anyone") to whatever I try to set
it.

In fact, as I said to begin with, I have access to those folders (and files)
ONLY LINKS (or shortcuts) to any folder ARE NOT GRANTED that same ACCESS by
windows explorer, which seems to be the single application to deal with *.lnk
as there doesn't seem to be a way to change the associated app for *.lnk.

Therefore, my closest guesses would be one of the following:
a> the interface / handler / settings for *.lnk files are corrupted
b> user rights information are falsely associated with the links I create
c> I have a fat environment corrupted by (newly) imposed nfts functionality
(which is close to b)

To trace those kind of "bugs" seems to be out of my league.

Any further ideas or recommendations?
 
G

Guest

Just to add some more info...

I have also noticed that in some applications, which don't use the standard
windows explorer 'folder select' control, not all non-hidden folders are
shown. However, links/shortcuts created to visible folders also get the
"acces denied". So, as weird as this is too, it doesn't seem to be directly
linked with the "access denied" problem.
 
G

Guest

IT's probably a virus. Does it get something like "VBS script error- access
is denied"
It has the characteristic of not opening folders by double click. and
everytime you do it it spreads. Run some antivirus programs, i think
kaspersky and avg works. but sometimes even after running the antivirus ity
won't still work cos the registry has been affected.
I had the same problem once. I found the following steps and it worked fro
me. but beware it might affect the group policy settings which may have to be
manually modified afterwards
To correct and solve this error, follow this steps:

1. Run Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del or right click on Taskbar)
2. Stop wscript.exe process if available by highlighting the process
name and clicking End Process.
3. Then terminate explorer.exe process.
4. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
5. Type “cmd†(without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
6. Type the following command one by one followed by hitting
Enter key:
del c:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del d:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del e:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
c, d, e each represents drive letters on Windows system. If there
are more drives or partitions available, continue to command by
altering to other drive letter. Note that you must also clean the
autorun files from USB flash drive or portable hard disk as the
external drive may also be infected.
7. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
8. Type “regedit†(without quotes) into the Open text box and click
OK.
9. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
10. Check if the value name and value data for the key is
correct (the value data of userint.exe include the path which
may be different than C drive, which is also valid, note also the
comma which is also needed):
“Userinitâ€=â€C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,â€
If the value is incorrent, modify it to the valid value data
 
G

Guest

dil said:
IT's probably a virus. Does it get something like "VBS script error- access
is denied"
It has the characteristic of not opening folders by double click. and
everytime you do it it spreads. Run some antivirus programs, i think
kaspersky and avg works. but sometimes even after running the antivirus ity
won't still work cos the registry has been affected.
I had the same problem once. I found the following steps and it worked fro
me. but beware it might affect the group policy settings which may have to be
manually modified afterwards
To correct and solve this error, follow this steps:

1. Run Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del or right click on Taskbar)
2. Stop wscript.exe process if available by highlighting the process
name and clicking End Process.
3. Then terminate explorer.exe process.
4. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
5. Type “cmd†(without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
6. Type the following command one by one followed by hitting
Enter key:
del c:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del d:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del e:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
c, d, e each represents drive letters on Windows system. If there
are more drives or partitions available, continue to command by
altering to other drive letter. Note that you must also clean the
autorun files from USB flash drive or portable hard disk as the
external drive may also be infected.
7. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
8. Type “regedit†(without quotes) into the Open text box and click
OK.
9. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
10. Check if the value name and value data for the key is
correct (the value data of userint.exe include the path which
may be different than C drive, which is also valid, note also the
comma which is also needed):
“Userinitâ€=â€C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,â€
If the value is incorrent, modify it to the valid value data


tobibeer said:
Just to add some more info...

I have also noticed that in some applications, which don't use the standard
windows explorer 'folder select' control, not all non-hidden folders are
shown. However, links/shortcuts created to visible folders also get the
"acces denied". So, as weird as this is too, it doesn't seem to be directly
linked with the "access denied" problem.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 

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