Re: Corrupt All Users\shared Documents folder



This is most likely a permissions problem. See:

Access is denied when opening the Shared Documents folder ?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/sdperms.htm

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"John Woodgate" <jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My All Users\Shared Documents folder has lost 'Shared' from its filename,
which should be impossible. I think it happened when there was a crash
while trying to set up a home network. Now the folder is 'Access denied'
even to an administrator and Adobe Acrobat keeps trying to open it but is
unable, producing cascading error messages (Error 1317 while attempting to
create the directory C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Adobe
PDF).

I have tried several ways of correcting this, such as registry scanners,
System Restore (which take 10 minutes to tell me it can't), 'repairing'
Adobe Acrobat, but nothing works.

I have Windows XP Home with SP3 (which installed without problems), so I
don't want to have to reinstall Windows. The computer's repair disc won't
work, because it's SP1.
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