Many of my folders are now shortcuts

[EHinPA]

Many of my folders are now shortcuts including "ALL USERS" " Default User"
etc, also now a lot of the subfolders in there (like application data,
favorites, etc) I am the only user and the administrator, and now it won't
allow me access, How can I fix this ? (and any Idea what caused this ?)

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

As an admin you can share it if you wish. Rightclick one of the folders, say
c:\documents and settings', and Properties, sharing tab, advanced sharing
button.

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[EHinPA]

This does not work, I have tried it, but as I click apply or OK, it tells me
there was an error and "access to this folder is denied"

 

[EHinPA]

Finally solved it. Not sure when it 1st happened, but I did a restore and
went back 2 weeks, the shortcut symbols are gone and I can access my folders

 

[Simon1964]

Wow, I am having the exact same problem. Been trying different things all
weekend and now found this thread. I too tried to restore from 2 weeks ago
but the restore said it was not successful. BUT, it's funny that this seems
to have happened to us and a few others around the same time, which makes me
think tha a windows update changed something? I have always clicked on
photos, or music 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!
I just noticed this last Thursday, but the wife says she noticed it around 2
weeks ago (mid feb??). Not sure what would have changed these to shortcuts, i
KNOW they were not shortcuts before. I will try and restore from a futher
point back later today.
Glad I found this though, i have read about 'junction points' etc, but this
was an over night kind of thing that happened to quite a few of us.

 

[EHinPA]

Hi, Hope You get it worked out. I only picked 2 weeks as an arbitrary number,
It was before the updates and Just after an install of software that I know
everything was good. A Shorter time period may also work if 2 weeks won't
restore.
Isn't trying to restore and having it fail a pain ? Even with XP I had all
of my restore points no good. Now I REGULARLY manually do a restore. Every
once in a while if everything is OK, I delete all my old ones and start over
(so I don't use a huge amt of disk space)
Good luck finding one that works, I know trying to "SHARE" the folders was
NO good.