Re: start menu My Documents etc don't work

Richard,

Nice to hear the problem is resolved.

Permissions for this key, in my system:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ ShellExecuteHooks

- - -
Administrators  - Full Control
CREATOR OWNER   - Full Control
Power Users     - Read
System  - Full Control
Users  - Read
- - -

Same Permissions level for most other keys under HKCR.

Should a fully healthy machine still have some access denied errors on such registry access?

Nope. No ACCESS DENIED error should occur on a healthy system, running under Admin rights. However, there are certain exceptions.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com


"Jaistar" <Jaistar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3705EBF4-D674-4C49-B93B-C3F7DE7F0A3D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks so much Ramesh,
Folder association fix applied. The regsvr32 /i/shdocvw still gives the
access denied error and now just 52 (was 54) lines come from Regmon. But I am
very pleased to report that the original problem is FIXED ! and all shortcuts
now appear to work OK. I had a look at the permissions for some of the 54
keys that gave accessed denied but failed to find any missing ticks for
Administrators full access. Should I have found evidence there as to why that
particular error occurred? Should a fully healthy machine still have some
access denied errors on such registry access?
Thanks again for your most valuable help,
Jaistar.


"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Richard,

If this is happening for desktop shortcuts, then it's a good idea to fix the
..LNK association as well. You can find the fix here:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com


"Jaistar" <Jaistar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EED4638F-9009-4BD0-B4F0-0D2B088E1285@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks Ramesh,
> I also have two shortcuts on my desktop to folders and they suffer from
> the
> same problem. It does appear that i have lost the file association for
> this
> folder type of object. Could I test thisidea?
> I have done another Regmon dump as suggested producing 54 lines. The > first
> 30 are from regsvr32.exe, the remainder from explorer.exe. The last 3 > of
> the
> regsvr32 lines are pasted below as i suspect they have information you
> will
> understand:-)
>
> 31.90375519 regsvr32.exe:3328 QueryValue
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks\{AEB6717E-7E19-11d0-97EE-00C04FD91972}
> ACCESS DENIED RICHARD-U5QWMDM\Richard
> 31.90545654 regsvr32.exe:3328 QueryValue
> HKCR\CLSID\{AEB6717E-7E19-11d0-97EE-00C04FD91972}\InProcServer32\ThreadingModel
> ACCESS
> DENIED RICHARD-U5QWMDM\Richard
> 31.94579124 regsvr32.exe:3328 QueryValue HKCR\Component
> Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\400 ACCESS
> DENIED RICHARD-U5QWMDM\Richard
>
>
> Regards,
> Richard.
>
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
>
>> Jaistar,
>>
>> Include the string "ACCESS DENIED" in the filter, and rerun the >> command.
>> You'll probably find the solution.
>>
>> -- >> Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
>> Windows XP Shell/User
>>
>> Windows XP Troubleshooting
>> http://www.winhelponline.com
>>
>>
>> "Jaistar" <Jaistar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:B7A0C964-B4A1-4E88-908A-F54AF39FA0A1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hello Ramesh,
>> > Since your previous relpy i have been doing research on this problem
>> > and
>> > now
>> > have a Regmon dump that includes a run regsvr32 /i shdocvw command. >> > It
>> > is
>> > over 600k in size despite being filtered for regsvr32. All its lines
>> > (20)
>> > that include shdocvw are pasted below. I could attach the regmon log
>> > file
>> > to
>> > an email if wished. There was no log found for the permission reset
>> > earlier.
>>
>>



.

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