Access Denied after update?

[Gordon Shumway]

I just installed the latest updates for Windows7 Home Premium. All
seemed to go well except that a folder, E:/
fe415abde851cbc837d6f5f83c4839, was added to my second hard drive.

When I try to delete it I am presented with the "Folder Access Denied"
window that says "You'll need to provide administrator permission to
delete this folder." When I hit the "Continue" button I am presented
with another "Folder Access Denied" window that says "You need
permission to perform this action. You require permission from SYSTEM
to make changes to this folder."

This is my personal computer and I am the only user. How do I get
permission from SYSTEM?

All help is appreciated.

 

[Paul]

I just installed the latest updates for Windows7 Home Premium. All
seemed to go well except that a folder, E:/
fe415abde851cbc837d6f5f83c4839, was added to my second hard drive.

When I try to delete it I am presented with the "Folder Access Denied"
window that says "You'll need to provide administrator permission to
delete this folder." When I hit the "Continue" button I am presented
with another "Folder Access Denied" window that says "You need
permission to perform this action. You require permission from SYSTEM
to make changes to this folder."

This is my personal computer and I am the only user. How do I get
permission from SYSTEM?

All help is appreciated.

This recipe is for people who like properties boxes

http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-how-to-delete-files-protected-by-trustedinstaller/

You can also find tutorials like this, for adding via a .reg file,
a context menu entry for conveniently making some of the changes.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

I haven't bothered with this on my laptop, because I have other ways
of beating stuff like that into submission.

The last one there, you download Take_Ownership.zip and inside
it has two files.

Add_Take_Ownership.reg
Remove_Take_Ownership.reg

You can extract those first, and change the file extension to .txt.
Open with Notepad for a look, to understand what the registry file
is doing.

When you're ready to install, go back to the .reg extension.

Right-click on

Add_Take_Ownership.reg

and select "Merge" from the menu. That should add the new context
menu entry. If you don't like the results, doing the same
right-click and Merge of the Remove_Take_Ownership.reg
will undo it. A careful user, compares both Add_Take_Ownership.txt
and Remove_Take_Ownership.txt, to see that they're symmetric
and undo things exactly.

When the Take Ownership thing is installed, you'll see
a new entry in your right-click context menu.

http://www.sevenforums.com/attachme...ws-7s-partition-problem-2009-01-13_130115.jpg

Paul

 

[Wolf K]

I just installed the latest updates for Windows7 Home Premium. All
seemed to go well except that a folder, E:/
fe415abde851cbc837d6f5f83c4839, was added to my second hard drive.

When I try to delete it I am presented with the "Folder Access Denied"
window that says "You'll need to provide administrator permission to
delete this folder." When I hit the "Continue" button I am presented
with another "Folder Access Denied" window that says "You need
permission to perform this action. You require permission from SYSTEM
to make changes to this folder."

This is my personal computer and I am the only user. How do I get
permission from SYSTEM?

All help is appreciated.

One question: How do you know it's safe to delete this folder?

 

[John Williamson]

One question: How do you know it's safe to delete this folder?

If 7 follows the normal MS pattern, that folder is one generated by MS
Update to hold some temporary files. It should be deleted by MS Update
after the update installs correctly. The fact that it is owned by SYSTEM
would tend to confirm this.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

This recipe is for people who like properties boxes

http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-how-to-delete-files-protected-by-trustedinstaller/

You can also find tutorials like this, for adding via a .reg file,
a context menu entry for conveniently making some of the changes.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

I haven't bothered with this on my laptop, because I have other ways
of beating stuff like that into submission.

The last one there, you download Take_Ownership.zip and inside
it has two files.

Add_Take_Ownership.reg
Remove_Take_Ownership.reg

You can extract those first, and change the file extension to .txt.
Open with Notepad for a look, to understand what the registry file
is doing.

When you're ready to install, go back to the .reg extension.

Right-click on

Add_Take_Ownership.reg

and select "Merge" from the menu. That should add the new context
menu entry. If you don't like the results, doing the same
right-click and Merge of the Remove_Take_Ownership.reg
will undo it. A careful user, compares both Add_Take_Ownership.txt
and Remove_Take_Ownership.txt, to see that they're symmetric
and undo things exactly.

When the Take Ownership thing is installed, you'll see
a new entry in your right-click context menu.

http://www.sevenforums.com/attachme...ws-7s-partition-problem-2009-01-13_130115.jpg

Paul

Thank you! The "Take Ownership" worked flawlessly. Thanks again for
letting me know where to get it and how to use it.

 

[Paul]

One question: How do you know it's safe to delete this folder?

A hint in this case, is it is on E: .

If the folder was on C:, then the decision would be
harder to make safely.

But only an idiot would design software, to leave
important stuff, on a non-system disk.

Imagine for example, that E: is a removable drive.
I could unplug E: and then that important folder would
not be within reach.

Since the location was poorly chosen, I can conclude
it isn't important.

Maybe someone should tell Microsoft about %temp%, and
how you can unpack your installers there

Paul

 

[Wolf K]

On 1/14/2013 2:39 PM, Paul wrote:
I write

A hint in this case, is it is on E: . [Etc]

Well reasoned, I think. ;-)

 

[gufus]

When the Take Ownership thing is installed, you'll see
a new entry in your right-click context menu.

http://www.sevenforums.com/attachme...ws-7s-partition-problem-2009-01-13_130115.jpg

Thx for the tip.