Cant open Protected operating files

[DigDeep]

Why Cant I open Protected operating files
like

Temporary Internet Files
or
Application Data

Im only user and Admin

 

[zigzag3143]

Why Cant I open Protected operating files
like

Temporary Internet Files
or
Application Data

Im only user and Admin

Um, they are protected. To open you need to change the permissions but why would you want to?

 

[Tews]

Hi DigDeep and Welcome to the forums!

When you install Windows 7, the default administrator account is not a full admin account ... see Brinks tutorial on how to activate the hidden admin account -=> here

 

[DigDeep]

Why Cant I open Protected operating files
like

Temporary Internet Files
or
Application Data

Im only user and Admin

Um, they are protected. To open you need to change the permissions but why would you want to?

I know they are protected but in xp ,that wasnt a problem.
I need to do some stuff

Tews

I tried that ,but stil cant open Applications data and some other folders.

 

[Tews]

Have you taken ownership of the folders? Tutorial -=> Here

 

[pbcopter]

Application Data is not a real folder but a Junction and is there to provide interface to legacy software.

 

[logicearth]

Everything you are looking for is in the AppData folder, all those other hidden files denying access were giving a special permission that denies browsing access to "Everyone". Not even the SYSTEM account can browse these folders.

Now before you go changing that, it was done for a reason. Those folders are junctions that point to locations in "\Users\{username}\AppData" and as such to keep scanning software from pulling duplicate files, browsing them is denied. Only a single permission is actually denied for the "Everyone" account.

Windows 7 is not Windows XP, it does not have the same stupid user directory layout as XP.

 

[swarfega]

No need for creating the admin account here. Its simply an option in explorer that you need to untick.

Open windows explorer. Go to tools - folder options. Click on the view tab. Untick "hide protected operation system files"

I should warn you that doing this will give you access to highly critical system files so make sure you know what your doing.

 

[DigDeep]

No need for creating the admin account here. Its simply an option in explorer that you need to untick.

Open windows explorer. Go to tools - folder options. Click on the view tab. Untick "hide protected operation system files"

I should warn you that doing this will give you access to highly critical system files so make sure you know what your doing.

YOu are wrong ,You can do that in xp but not in win 7.

 

[DigDeep]

Have you taken ownership of the folders? Tutorial -=> Here

TY Tews that do the trick

 

[Personne]

Any other suggestions ?

Hi All

I installed Seven a month ago and started with the default User account setup. 48 hrs ago I activated the Admin account and proceeded to move prefs and files over to the admin. I used the Files & Parameters Tranfer Wizard; it created a 3.1G file and moved favorites and stuff nicely but now I find myself locked-out of system directories.

I know now I shouldn't have done that but it seemed like a good idea at the time; who knew it would mess the access parameters... Let this be a warning for other users.

I tried tweaking security properties to reclaim ownership using the instructions above to no avail.

Any other ideas I could try before I reinstall the whole shabang from scratch?

TIA

 

[Tews]

Im not sure if this will work or not, but have you performed a system restore??? If you do end up reinstalling, make an image of your drive/partition so if this happens again, you wont have this problem...

Good Luck

 

[logicearth]

I know now I shouldn't have done that but it seemed like a good idea at the time; who knew it would mess the access parameters... Let this be a warning for other users.

Yes, you should not have enabled the Administrator account. There is no need for you to do that, not a smart thing to do at all.

 

[Personne]

Im not sure if this will work or not, but have you performed a system restore??? If you do end up reinstalling, make an image of your drive/partition so if this happens again, you wont have this problem...

Good Luck

I was heading there until I went and looked at my 2K8 setup on a different machine... Lo and behold: the same problem popped-up !

It had to be something else...

I found the answer. It's not an ownership or secpol bug. It's The New Way of Doing Things® since Vista

All is well; Thanks for your time.