Documents and Settings Permissions

[Guest]

So my account is setup as administrator, why does it still not give me
permission to view Documents and Settings folder?

Any way to get permission?

Thanks,

Pfaff

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

1. Because of UAC even administrative accounts do not have elevated
privileges until explicitly requested.
2. In Vista "C:\Documents and Settings" is not a folder. It is a symlink
that points to C:\Users. It's there for backwards compatibility and has NTFS
permissions configured to prevent enumerating contents of a target it points
to since is not supposed to be accessed by users.

Just open C:\Users.

 

[Jane C]

The Documents and Settings folder is not a real folder. It is a junction
that redirects legacy applications to the new Users folder.
C:\Users\*yourname*\Documents

 

[Rock]

So my account is setup as administrator, why does it still not give me
permission to view Documents and Settings folder?

Any way to get permission?

Any folder that is dimmed and has the curved arrow overlay on it is a
junction. All it does is point to the actual folder on Vista where that
data is kept (it's here for legacy apps). All of those have access denied
to keep applications from getting confused. There is nothing in there
anyway, so ignore them.

 

[Guest]

Help! I kinda understand your explaination. I kinda have a similar problem.

I just upgraded from XP Pro to Vista. When I try to open any word doc that
is in my DOCUMENTS folder I get the msg "Word cannot open document -
permissions etc. So I found an article about UAC(user account control) it
is 38 pages long, but it does say that if you upgrade fron an XP system that
only has an administrator account, the UAC is changed for the admin user
account in Vista. I cannot open pictures with Photoshop. This is crazy.
Without a long explanation, can anyone tell me what I can do to access my
filed? Of course when I turn UAC off I can get them, but that defeats the
purpose of UAC. Thanks.

 

[S Wayne]

Where exactly are the files you are trying to access. During the
upgrade
they should have been moved to C:\Users\<yourname>\ which you have
access
to...

Help! I kinda understand your explaination. I kinda have a similar problem.

I just upgraded from XP Pro to Vista. When I try to open any word doc that
is in myDOCUMENTSfolder I get the msg "Word cannot open document -
permissions etc. So I found an article about UAC(user account control) it
is 38 pages long, but it does say that if you upgrade fron an XP system that
only has an administrator account, the UAC is changed for the admin user
account in Vista. I cannot open pictures with Photoshop. This is crazy.
Without a long explanation, can anyone tell me what I can do to access my
filed? Of course when I turn UAC off I can get them, but that defeats the
purpose of UAC. Thanks.

Any folder that is dimmed and has the curved arrow overlay on it is a
junction. All it does is point to the actual folder on Vista where that
data is kept (it's here for legacy apps). All of those have access denied
to keep applications from getting confused. There is nothing in there
anyway, so ignore them.