Documents and Settings

[Crispy500]

Hi,

I am trying to get access to My Documents and Settings folder, but Vista
Home Premium will not allow me to.
I get a message of:

C:\Documents and Settings is not accessible - Access is Denied

How can I get access to this folder?
Any help gratefully received

Regards

 

[Saran]

You have no reason to access it. In fact, it would be dangerous for
you stored files to do so. It is known (By MS) as a junction file.

Dangerous? Rubbish. It's nothing more than an alias to the C:\users
(where C: is the boot drive's letter) and should be perfectly
accessible.

Its purpose is to provide a shortcut link to the new storage files in
Vista, (Users - username - Documents) for software compatibility
reasons.
You can gain access by altering the security onthe folder,but I would
advise against it.

Advise against allowing yourself access to your own files and settings?
Wow.... and this is supposed to be the future...

 

[...winston]

Think of it as road sign...it contains nothing but a direction and only
visible since Hide Protected Operating System files was toggled on.

If you wish to access(after you install Vista) your 'real' documents you
really have two choices.
a. ensure Vista is configured to show your user folder on the desktop
- rt click on desktop/Personalize/Change Desktop icons
- put a check in User Files
b. access your 'user files' via Explorer
C:\Users\<logon id>\Documents\Links which has shortcuts to
Documents, Pictures, Music, Public etc..


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...winston
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You have no reason to access it. In fact, it would be dangerous for
you stored files to do so. It is known (By MS) as a junction file.

Dangerous? Rubbish. It's nothing more than an alias to the C:\users
(where C: is the boot drive's letter) and should be perfectly
accessible.

Its purpose is to provide a shortcut link to the new storage files in
Vista, (Users - username - Documents) for software compatibility
reasons.
You can gain access by altering the security onthe folder,but I would
advise against it.

Advise against allowing yourself access to your own files and settings?
Wow.... and this is supposed to be the future...

 

[Chris Game]

Dangerous? Rubbish. It's nothing more than an alias to the
C:\users (where C: is the boot drive's letter) and should be
perfectly accessible.

It isn't. Try changing to "\Documents and Settings" in a command
window. Then try listing the contents. It isn't a simple alias, it's
a system artifact. Stop trying to out-think Vista, it's smarter than
you are.

 

[Saran]

It isn't. Try changing to "\Documents and Settings" in a command
window. Then try listing the contents. It isn't a simple alias, it's
a system artifact.

Ok I'll give you that. But what is the point of fort-knox-ing what
should be a simple alias (junction) ? I mean the whole point ot to
provide some backwards compatiblity with the previous paradigm. So why
make it so difficult to access?

Stop trying to out-think Vista, it's smarter than you are.

Doing things that make no sense does not constitute being smart (or
smarter.)

 

[Simon1964]

it's funny that this seems
to have happened to me and a few others around the same time, which makes me
think that a windows update changed something? I have always clicked on
photos, or music folders from within my documents with never a problem, then
all of a
sudded they are shortcuts and give me the access denied message as well!
If there was an update I'm guessing at around 1st february 2008 this could
have either changed our hidden folder settings as we now 'see' the hidden
folders. or it actually changed something in our Vista OS at that time,
because all of a suuden, many people get the access denied message, very
intrigiung.