Windows 7: Fonts Folder Permission

shrikanthgc · 14 Apr 2010

Hello EveryOne,

I have an issue when i try to select font from font dialogue using the path

Drive:\Windows\Fonts

Even though i have logged in as a Administrator Its throwing an Permission error like

You dont have the permission to open the File.
Contact the File owner or Administrator.

Thanks & regards,
Shrikanth Reddy GC

not so gray matter · 15 Apr 2010

You need to log in as a administrator and take ownership of the folder.

Windows 7 Take Ownership & Grant Permissions to Access Files & Folder

CommonTater · 15 Apr 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by shrikanthgc

Hello EveryOne,

I have an issue when i try to select font from font dialogue using the path

Drive:\Windows\Fonts

Even though i have logged in as a Administrator Its throwing an Permission error like

You dont have the permission to open the File.
Contact the File owner or Administrator.

Thanks & regards,
Shrikanth Reddy GC

The correct path is

c:\windows\fonts

Drive: does not exist.

Yeah I know... I'm knit picking but all the same it's silly things like this that cause most of the errors we see in day to day computing.

Kirsch · 11 Jun 2010

This is very annoying, but after about an hour our IT team found the solution

lol

UAC needs to be disabled (Control Panel > User Accounts > Change User Account Control Settings, select “Never Notify”)

Now we need to give the user access to the font directory and registry key

For the Directory:
1. Open the command prompt WITH ADMINISTRATOR PRIVILEGES (right click cmd, “run as administrator”)
2. Type “attrib –r –s c:\windows\fonts” (obviously minus the quotes), hit Enter
3. Right click on the fonts folder and choose properties
4. Click the Security tab
5. Click Advanced
6. Click the Owner tab
7. Click the Edit button
8. Change the Current Owner to yourself
9. Check the “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects” box
10. Click OK
As a pop-up box will tell you, you must close the window completely for the changes to take in effect

For the registry key:
1. Run regedit
2. Browse to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENT VERSION\FONTS
3. Give permission to Users

Restart the computer and you should be able to set Full Control permissions for the Users group on the Fonts folder

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