Any reason why Documents and Settings folder can't be accessed? I
tried to change permissions for the folder (including in Safe Mode)
and got access denied?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
glamart said:Any reason why Documents and Settings folder can't be accessed? I tried to
change permissions for the folder (including in Safe Mode) and got access
denied?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
You have to take ownership of the folder before you can edit it. By
default "system" owns the folder not administrator so you do no have
rights to access the folder.
Right click and go to properties then security and give the
administrator ownership.
You have to take ownership of the folder before you can edit it.
By
default "system" owns the folder not administrator so you do no
have
rights to access the folder.
Right click and go to properties then security and give the
administrator ownership.
Bruce Sanderson said:What I don't see in the page dean-dean referred you to is that the
folder called "Users" is essentially a replacement for "Documents
and Settings".
The reason you get access denied on the Junctions is becuase of
the "Deny" permission for the "Everyone" group. Some people have
suggested removing this, but Microsoft recommends not doing so
becuase it can result in infinte loops in some applications.
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It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong
question.
Rock said:You don't need access to this folder, among others. Why? Because
all it contains is a pointer to the actual folder in Vista where
the files are kept. Vista has certain folders that are the same
as in XP. They are in Vista for compatibility purposes for legacy
software, however they don't hold actual data. They are what is
called a junction point (similar to a shortcut). All it contains
is a pointer. You should not change the access permissions on
these folders. It could cause problems for legacy apps.
Any folder that is shown dimmed with the shortcut arrow and gives
an access denied message is one of these. To see the actual
folder it points to open an elevated command prompt (from Start
type in cmd, then right click on it at the top and choose Run as
Administrator). Navigate to the folder that has the folder in
question and give the command
dir /al
Junctions are indentified by <Junction> and the folder it points
to is listed at the end of the line in brackets. For Documents
and Settings the real folder is C:\Users.
From a post by Jimmy Brush, MVP, here is a list of all these
folders
Windows XP Location Windows Vista Location
\Documents and Settings \Users
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\My Documents
\Users\$USER$\Documents
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\My Documents\My Music
\Users\$USER$\Music
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\My Documents\My Pictures
\Users\$USER$\Pictures
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\My Documents\My Videos
\Users\$USER$\Videos
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Application Data
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Cookies
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Local Settings
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Local
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\NetHood
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\PrintHood
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Printer Shortcuts
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Recent
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\SendTo
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Start Menu
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Templates
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Local Settings\Application Data
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Local
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Local Settings\History
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History
\Documents and Settings\$USER$\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files
\Users\$USER$\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary
Internet Files
\Documents and Settings\All Users \ProgramData
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
\ProgramData
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
\Users\Public\Desktop
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents
\Users\Public\Documents
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Favorites
\Users\Public\Favorites
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu
\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Templates
\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Templates
\Documents and Settings\Default User \Users\Default "
smrtchld104 said:I recently installed Vista on a new hard drive, but in a quest to pull
some data pictures and backgrounds off of my old windows xp harddrive i
put it in a usb enclousure. I've since switched back to my XP load and
vista is on a different Physical drive, and nothing else has changed
except for opening my pictures folder in vista. I now can't access the
My pictures folder in XP. It says "access denied" but if i know the
exact path i can open files from command line, but can't browse the my
pictures folder and the size is 0 kbytes.
What did i do to my permissions and i do i reset them in xp to continue
using xp?
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