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security policy? locked folders
Hello,
About six weeks ago, we got a Win 7 Home laptop (Dell Inspiron). I've also been using Win 7 Pro at work (Dell Optiplex) for about a year & a half.
I like to customize my Win 7 themes by downloading a theme, then browsing to the folder where the pictures are contained and putting the pictures I like into the folders. This has worked well for me on the Win 7 Pro machine since I got it, and I manipulate the content of these folders on a regular basis.
The first time I did this on the Win 7 Home laptop, right after we got it, I had no problem browsing to the folders and putting the pictures I wanted into them. Yesterday, when I went in to modify the theme folders for the 2nd time, I noticed one of the folders in the path was now locked (User\AppData). I looked at its properties, and changed the security settings to allow access.
When the folder opened up, I noticed that some of the sub-folders were also locked. None of these folders were locked the first time I browsed into them, and none of them have ever been locked on the Win 7 Pro machine.
What has caused these folders to become locked? And how can I uniformly unlock them for access?