Document & Settings Folder

[Earl Partridge]

In previous versions of Windows, this folder could be accessed and was
where My Documents resided. Now I don't have permission to access
Documents & Settings. How can I change that?
Earl

 

[Dave-UK]

In previous versions of Windows, this folder could be accessed and was
where My Documents resided. Now I don't have permission to access
Documents & Settings. How can I change that?
Earl

You don't need to, it's a dummy folder for backward compatibility.
Google ' junction points windows 7 '.

 

[LSMFT]

In previous versions of Windows, this folder could be accessed and was
where My Documents resided. Now I don't have permission to access
Documents & Settings. How can I change that?
Earl

I have 2 My Documents folders. One is a dummy, the other one works.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

In previous versions of Windows, this folder could be accessed and was
where My Documents resided. Now I don't have permission to access
Documents & Settings. How can I change that?
Earl

You can't change it.

There is no "Documents and Settings" folder native to either
Windows Vista or Windows 7. Either you created it yourself (unlikely),
or it was created by some application incompatible with Vista/Windows 7.
What you're "seeing" is called a "Junction Point," whose sole purpose
is to direct legacy applications to the correct locations of user
settings and data files; it's not a folder that can be opened, nor does
it have any contents.

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


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[relic]

In previous versions of Windows, this folder could be accessed and was
where My Documents resided. Now I don't have permission to access
Documents & Settings. How can I change that?
Earl

Look under the "Users" folder.

 

[Earl Partridge]

So, all those Locked folders are Junction Points I guess.
Earl