Access denied?

[Beyond X]

Recently I upgraded my Win XP computer to Win7 and I am still in the
early phase of the learning curve.
One thing that embarrasses me is the incidence that when I attempt to
find a file using Windows Explorer, I encounter an error message telling
me "a folder is not accessible. Access is denied." I am the only user
and Administrator. Since it never happened with XP, I suppose that the
cause has something to do with the increased security feature of Win 7.
Can someone help me in how to remove such restrictions? Thanx.

 

[Paul]

Recently I upgraded my Win XP computer to Win7 and I am still in the
early phase of the learning curve.
One thing that embarrasses me is the incidence that when I attempt to
find a file using Windows Explorer, I encounter an error message telling
me "a folder is not accessible. Access is denied." I am the only user
and Administrator. Since it never happened with XP, I suppose that the
cause has something to do with the increased security feature of Win 7.
Can someone help me in how to remove such restrictions? Thanx.

Junction points maybe ?

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...y/thread/C506C825-A22F-4AFF-9A75-9B83BD14FF44

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_point

Paul

 

[Seth]

Recently I upgraded my Win XP computer to Win7 and I am still in the
early phase of the learning curve.
One thing that embarrasses me is the incidence that when I attempt to
find a file using Windows Explorer, I encounter an error message telling
me "a folder is not accessible. Access is denied." I am the only user
and Administrator. Since it never happened with XP, I suppose that the
cause has something to do with the increased security feature of Win 7.
Can someone help me in how to remove such restrictions? Thanx.

Cause it may very well not be a folder you tried to access. But we can only
guess cause you didn't bother to give any specifics.

"C:\Documents and Settings" on a Vista\Win7 machine for example is not a
folder.

 

[Roy Smith]

Recently I upgraded my Win XP computer to Win7 and I am still in the
early phase of the learning curve.
One thing that embarrasses me is the incidence that when I attempt to
find a file using Windows Explorer, I encounter an error message telling
me "a folder is not accessible. Access is denied." I am the only user
and Administrator. Since it never happened with XP, I suppose that the
cause has something to do with the increased security feature of Win 7.
Can someone help me in how to remove such restrictions? Thanx.

So how do you expect us to be able to help you if you don't give some
details? Like for example, what folder are you trying to access?
Remember, we can't see what your looking at on your monitor. So the
more detail you provide it increases the chances of someone being able
to provide a solution to your problem.


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Thunderbird 3.1.7
Sunday, January 23, 2011 7:51:50 PM

 

[relic]

Recently I upgraded my Win XP computer to Win7 and I am still in the
early phase of the learning curve.
One thing that embarrasses me is the incidence that when I attempt to
find a file using Windows Explorer, I encounter an error message telling
me "a folder is not accessible. Access is denied." I am the only user
and Administrator. Since it never happened with XP, I suppose that the
cause has something to do with the increased security feature of Win 7.
Can someone help me in how to remove such restrictions? Thanx.

Try lowering your selection in User Account Control Settings. See if it
persists.

 

[Gordon]

Try lowering your selection in User Account Control Settings. See if it
persists.

<sharp intake of breath>......

 

[relic]

<sharp intake of breath>......

If the OP finds the "Access Denied" too much to live with...
His other option is to select "Continue" every time until he's done it for
every directory.

 

[relic]

If his Junction Points are anything like mine, he'll never see a
"Continue" button when attempting to View or Open them.

Not talking about the Access Points, real directories get the message.

 

[Beyond X]

From the original poster
Thanks for all who gave thought and time to my post.
Sometimes the whole folder of the Documents and Settings is
inaccessible. Some other times its subfolders or component files are
inaccessible.

I don't see, so far, advantage or improvement of this feature of Win7 as
compared to WinXP, for example. How does it help something which is not
available in earlier version of Windows?
At any rate I am in trouble in being unable to carry out the tasks that
were routine in WinXP.

 

[Char Jackson]

From the original poster
Thanks for all who gave thought and time to my post.
Sometimes the whole folder of the Documents and Settings is
inaccessible. Some other times its subfolders or component files are
inaccessible.

I don't see, so far, advantage or improvement of this feature of Win7 as
compared to WinXP, for example. How does it help something which is not
available in earlier version of Windows?
At any rate I am in trouble in being unable to carry out the tasks that
were routine in WinXP.

It's an improvement, (the junction points, I mean), that's aimed at
software compatibility rather than being targeted directly at the
users.

What tasks are you trying to accomplish, specifically? I'm sure there
are multiple people here who can help you with any of your routine
tasks. Hang in there and don't give up. All of the files and folders
are still there somewhere, although some have changed their name
and/or location a bit.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

From the original poster
Thanks for all who gave thought and time to my post.
Sometimes the whole folder of the Documents and Settings is
inaccessible. Some other times its subfolders or component files are
inaccessible.

I don't see, so far, advantage or improvement of this feature of Win7 as
compared to WinXP, for example. How does it help something which is not
available in earlier version of Windows?
At any rate I am in trouble in being unable to carry out the tasks that
were routine in WinXP.

Paul and Seth answered your question. "Documents and Settings" is not a
folder, it is a junction point, and is not meant to be accessible to a
user. It is meant to be accessed only from programs that were written
under prior versions of Windows, for backwards compatibility..

My Documents, or the Documents folder under Libraries, point to the same
stuff and *are* accessible.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Paul and Seth answered your question. "Documents and Settings" is not a
folder, it is a junction point, and is not meant to be accessible to a
user. It is meant to be accessed only from programs that were written
under prior versions of Windows, for backwards compatibility..

My Documents, or the Documents folder under Libraries, point to the same
stuff and *are* accessible.

I should add that while I was typing the above, Char Jackson submitted
yet another answer to your question, and with some nice encouragement

 

[Char Jackson]

I should add that while I was typing the above, Char Jackson submitted
yet another answer to your question, and with some nice encouragement

I'm sure we'll get him squared away.

 

[Valorie *~]

I'm sure we'll get him squared away.

I'll bet you can't even get him to post in plain text.

 

[Char Jackson]

I'll bet you can't even get him to post in plain text.

BeyondX has been posting in plain text...

 

[relic]

I'll bet you can't even get him to post in plain text.

It just looks funny to some because it's "charset=ISO-2022-JP", I first
thought it was HTML too.