Problems saving .doc and .txt files to my desktop

On my Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) I recently started receiving an error when trying to save a document (.doc, .xls, etc) or text (.txt)file to my desktop. The error is as follows:

"C:\Users\John\Desktop\(FILE NAME).doc
You don't have permission to save in this location.
Contact the administrator to obtain permission.

Would you like to save in the My Documents folder instead?"

I am the only user profile on this computer and it is set as administrator. I currently have all security permissions set to "Allow All" and I have no password set, so what is going on and how do I fix it? If I select "Yes" to save it to My Document, then move the file to my desktop, I am only able to open the file in a non-editable mode/version.

andrew129260 said:

Something is def odd there. Certainly not normal.

Try to take ownership of your profile folder under C\users

Take Ownership Shortcut

Take Ownership - Allow or Prevent Users and Groups To

"Take ownership" doesn't show up in any of my context menus. I do have full permissions set in the properties>security menu, though. (First link you provided)

"C:\Windows\System32\secpol.msc" can not be found by my Windows system. (Second link you provided)

Ztruker said:

Read the directions at the Take Ownership Shortcut andrew posted. That shows you how to add Take Ownership to your right click Context menu.

I downloaded, and installed, Add_Take_Ownership.reg, but as I said before, "Take Ownership" does not show up in my context menu for the desktop.

Ztruker said:

You need to right clik on something you want to take ownership of (folder or file), then it should show.

pheonix73 said:

I downloaded, and installed, Add_Take_Ownership.reg, but as I said before, "Take Ownership" does not show up in my context menu for the desktop.

As I said, "Take Ownership" does not show up in my context menu. The only way to get to that context menu IS to right click on something.

Here's a screen shot:

andrew129260 said:

Go to Local disk C\ users Right click on your user profile folder

Does take ownership show up now?

Did you try restarting? If it still did not show up, that is very odd. Works everytime on every pc I ever tried it on.

OK. It worked on my user profile folder. Will that correct the issue I am having (not being able to save created documents to my desktop)?