Re: Access denied as Administrator

Nic

Hi Jimmy

Hope you can help me. I accidentally remove the permissions of my C:\ drive
and now I cannot access it. I've tried to take ownership of it but it kept
on giving me the message " Can't open access control editor. Acces denied."
The same message appear no matter what I try.

"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> You are most likely talking about the Vista application compatability
> "junctions" - they look like shortcuts to folders, with a shortcut arrow and
> a dimmed/ghosted folder icon. For example, "My Documents", "My Pictures",
> "Documents and Settings".
>
> These are not really folders, but pointers to other locations on your
> computer that some apps need to use under certain scenarios. For example,
> Documents and Settings points to the Users folder.
>
> You can't browse into these junctions. The reasoning isn't to lock you out,
> but to keep applications from thinking these are real folders and getting
> confused.
>
> --
> - JB
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> "Al" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > New to Vista (Ultimate). Why, when I'm logged in as Administrator, are
> > there
> > folders on the disk that produce an "Access denied" error when I try to
> > browse them? I thought the purpose of the Administrator account was to
> > provide full and complete access to the computer including any folder/file
> > on
> > the disk regardless of creator/owner status. This is new (and very
> > annoying)
> > behavior since XP Pro. What settings need to be tweaked?
> >
> > TIA.
>