Access denied on lots of folders

[Merlin5]

There's loads of locked folders in W7 with a padlock icon or an arrow which say not accessible, access denied, folder is not available. Am I meant to have an option to be able to configure something which gives me access to all these?
You know, like for instance in XP when you could make hidden folders visible, or am I meant to stay away from these locked folders and ignore them? Thanks.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Depends on the folder(s) I suppose, can you list the ones you are trying to access?

 

[Merlin5]

Well, there seems to be various duplicate folders like my documents, my pictures, recovery, system information, my music, documents and settings, etc. But I can also find the same titled folders which do give me access.

 

[Merlin5]

Great. Doesn't anyone else have folders they can't access?

 

[monkeyspank]

this guy lol
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18070929

 

[something daft already!!]

Can you not right click on them and take ownership? Are they left over from an old install?

 

[UKDTweak]

If your refering to the padlock folders in the user accounts folder... I think these are some kind of hard coded link to other directories and you are Not meant to open them...

 

[Merlin5]

I guess I'll leave them then. Thanks.

 

[Meridian]

It's an annoying feature introduced with Vista: put what appears to be the folder you want in plain view and then stop you using it. It's just a shortcut - the thing you actually want is at the bottom of seven levels of drill-down folders somewhere completely non-intuative. I don't actually understand the point of those folders on mmost cases, since even admin can't use them as far as I can tell? Why not just leave then off?

Sorry, it wound me up more than anything else with Vista, and that's saying something.


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[james.miller]

It's an annoying feature introduced with Vista: put what appears to be the folder you want in plain view and then stop you using it. It's just a shortcut - the thing you actually want is at the bottom of seven levels of drill-down folders somewhere completely non-intuative. I don't actually understand the point of those folders on mmost cases, since even admin can't use them as far as I can tell? Why not just leave then off?

Sorry, it wound me up more than anything else with Vista, and that's saying something.


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they arent folders, they are links. presumable put there for backwards compatibility with xp and older after they redsigned the user folder structures.

If you didnt disable 'hide protected files operating system files' and didnt enable 'show hidden files, folder and drives' then you wouldnt see them

 

[Meridian]

they arent folders, they are links. presumable put there for backwards compatibility with xp and older after they redsigned the user folder structures.

If you didnt disable 'hide protected files operating system files' and didnt enable 'show hidden files, folder and drives' then you wouldnt see them

If I did that I'd never get anything done...



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