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notheing is working for me please help
the tool didnt work for me any other thoughts
the tool didnt work for me any other thoughts
Hey people I just registered in this forum because I have a simillar problem to those previously here related.
Well I just did an upgrade to my pc and I bought among other thing a new hard drive where it was installed windows 7. The thing is that when I try to access some of my old songs / photos / videos of my old disk in which i have windows XP installed, I have those issues about ownership and i already tried almost everything but there is always an anoying error saying that the acess is denied! I was going to try Zidane's Tool but i just dont know how to run it!
Could you help me please?
Sorry about spelling mistakes but i am not english.
im also having the exact same issue, can someone please help!
I'm jumping in here because I have the same problem, Access Denied for folder "C: My Files". Am including an ANSI WINDOWS shot I used the snipping tool on. I don;t what to put in the add object box. I tried WILLIAM-PC and that was rejected. Help?
same problem...
why should i start a new thread? won't that just make it more difficult for the next person with this problem?
As I understand it some folders are locked into the 'trusted installer' program somehow.
I had a similar problem with Google Earth where the folders were locked out to all Admin accounts and users. Never did solve that one but reinstalling Google Earth worked so I didn't need to go any further.
I did read a suggestion that via a CMD prompt (run in Admin mode) you can use the 'takeown' followed by a 'calcs' command that is supposed to overwrite this to allow access ?
Can't remember the exact text required to follow the above commands.
I think Microsoft should look at this and allow local Admin users an efficient way to manage Windows folders and files when they are locked.
I believe that if you boot W7 into safe mode, you will have access to everything regardless of ownership. Perhaps you could copy the files you want in safe mode to a folder you have ownership of. Not sure if this would result in removing any restrictions after rebooting normally, but it might be worth a try if normal methods of taking ownership aren't working.
OK, I'd asked a question on permissions in the "General" thread, and came across this thread that seems to have many of the same problems I'm having after an XP to W7 move. I followed this advise (below) and it seems to have solved my problems accessing my Doc and Settings folder, but I have what looks like a "shortcut" symbol on the "D&S" and the "Default" folder, and a lock on the "Tom" folder (me). I can open both (where I couldn't before). Then I have the other C\users folder, pretty much showing the same thing. Just looks wrong.
Now that I have access, what to do to combine all and make it "right"? (normal folders, no lock, no shortcut).