Re: Access Denied to Administrator

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Ooops. Embarrased grin. I had simply expanded the "Documents" folder in the
left pane and shown up all the shortcuts. The actual folders were pushed way
off down the list and so I didn't notice it! All working OK after all.
Sorry...

Hugh


"Hughmn" wrote:

Lu's problem has suddenly hit my computer. I have the folder settings a Show
hidden files/folders but "Documents and Settings" is showing as a shortcut
and I get the access denied message.
When I open "Documents" from the Start Menu I can no longer access
Application Data, Cookies, My Music, My Videos, My Pictures, etc. - all are
showing as shortcuts.
They were working yesterdayand I don't recall cahanging any settings since
then.

The only thing I can think that has changed is downloading the latest
update: a Windows Defender update. Can't see it on the updates list to try
uninstalling it.

Other programs eg xnView access the picture folder fine.

I have tried rebooting and shutdown/restarted - no improvement.

Help....?

Thanks,
Hugh


"Lu Powell" wrote:

Thanks. That makes sense.

"Michael Walraven" <mexxwalraven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7FCD587E-2207-465E-8497-E2543281BC5D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Application data and Local Settings do not 'exist' as folders, they are
there to enable legacy (pre Vista) programs that were poorly programmed to
continue to work by redirecting those programs to locations now used by
Vista. Unless you have elected to see protected system files you should
not be seeing them anyway.

Michael

"Lu Powell" <lupowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eG4opRH1IHA.2064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

While logged in with administrator privileges, why can I not access
certain folders, such as Application Data, Local Settings, Temporary
Internet files, etc.?



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