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Windows 7 i slocking me out of my own files
Hi All,
like the title said, WIndows 7 is starting to put padlocks on my own home folder and it is also not letting move the contents of a folder on the desktop into My Music folder.
I bought a new laptop 3 weeks ago running windows 7 64bit and it's been great so far. I have previously been using an iMac so my knowledge on WIndows 7 is limited.
I initaially transfered all my music from my mac onto a folder on the desktop of my laptop. Installed iTunes, added the music to my library and all was fine. I then realised that if I used windows media centre instead then i could sync it up with my xbox 360.
I couldn't get it to work so I decided to go back to iTunes.
Since then I have noticed that my home folder found at Users/fiona has a padlock icon on it and properties state that it is read-only. No matter how many time I uncheck that read-only box each time I go back it's read only.
I tried the properties > security and according that what is shown I have full permissions to do whatever I want.
I then decided I wanted to move my music (which I had just saved to the desktop) into the My Music folder, however I keep getting an access denied, and I am unsure if it related to the folder on the desktop or the My Music folder.
I am the only account on the machine, I have full admin. I really don't understand what has happened to cause this nor how to fix it. The only thing I tried to get working was Windows Media Centre, and I don't see why it would lock down all my files. I certainly won't bother trying it again though.
I am close to just using my recovery partition to just delete everything and start from scratch in the hope it will fix it and it won't happen again.
Any help would be most apprectiated. I have done various google searches to resolve this following various directions but since my machine already sees me as having full permission to do things, I don't see why I should be getting locked out of my own files.
I am new to Windows so be gentle please and thank you in advance :)