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This is getting real annoying ! I have tuned on the administrator account, gave myself administrator privaleges and even tryed some of the suggestions to right click on windows explorer and run as administrator. and still gettinng access denied. It seems mostly on the shortcut folders.... Still wondering why those shotcut folders are there??. It's like dealing with a really bad norton product!! Need to click on a prompt everywhere you go !!

Hello,
If you are talking about these locations:
\Users\<account>\Documents\Video, Pictures, Music and \Documents and Settings
These aren't used by the system and the system doesn't allow access to them... administrator or not... I think they are just there as some sort of application compatability hack ... there is no reason to try to access them.
However, I do think that if Microsoft is going to make them visible, they should tell you more information about them than access denied (such as, "These folders are here for application compatability purposes and cannot be accessed" or somesuch) ... or, perhaps make them permanently hidden ... anything besides "Access Denied", as that is frustrating!
- JB

Yeah, I turned off hide system files in folder options, I went and turned it back on so I don't see those folders any more. Now if I can only figure out how to tun off the "user account controls" pop-up. every time i change a setting. I'm account administrator......don't need some dumb pop-up telling me that I'm changing a system setting.. :/
"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

Hello,
If you are talking about these locations:
\Users\<account>\Documents\Video, Pictures, Music and \Documents and Settings
These aren't used by the system and the system doesn't allow access to them... administrator or not... I think they are just there as some sort of application compatability hack ... there is no reason to try to access them.
However, I do think that if Microsoft is going to make them visible, they should tell you more information about them than access denied (such as, "These folders are here for application compatability purposes and cannot be accessed" or somesuch) ... or, perhaps make them permanently hidden ... anything besides "Access Denied", as that is frustrating!
- JB

"chrisgruntled" wrote:

Yeah, I turned off hide system files in folder options, I went and turned it back on so I don't see those folders any more. Now if I can only figure out how to tun off the "user account controls" pop-up. every time i change a setting. I'm account administrator......don't need some dumb pop-up telling me that I'm changing a system setting.. :/
"Jimmy Brush" wrote:
Hello,
If you are talking about these locations:
\Users\<account>\Documents\Video, Pictures, Music and \Documents and Settings
These aren't used by the system and the system doesn't allow access to them... administrator or not... I think they are just there as some sort of application compatability hack ... there is no reason to try to access them.
However, I do think that if Microsoft is going to make them visible, they should tell you more information about them than access denied (such as, "These folders are here for application compatability purposes and cannot be accessed" or somesuch) ... or, perhaps make them permanently hidden ... anything besides "Access Denied", as that is frustrating!
- JB

As far as turning off the 'user accounts controls' pop-up, it has been discussed many times here in these newsgroups.
Control Panel User Accounts Change Security Settings Clear the check mark in the box.
"chrisgruntled" wrote in message

Yeah, I turned off hide system files in folder options, I went and turned it back on so I don't see those folders any more. Now if I can only figure out how to tun off the "user account controls" pop-up. every time i change a setting. I'm account administrator......don't need some dumb pop-up telling me that I'm changing a system setting.. :/
"Jimmy Brush" wrote:
Hello,
If you are talking about these locations:
\Users\<account>\Documents\Video, Pictures, Music and \Documents and Settings
These aren't used by the system and the system doesn't allow access to them... administrator or not... I think they are just there as some sort of application compatability hack ... there is no reason to try to access them.
However, I do think that if Microsoft is going to make them visible, they should tell you more information about them than access denied (such as, "These folders are here for application compatability purposes and cannot be accessed" or somesuch) ... or, perhaps make them permanently hidden ... anything besides "Access Denied", as that is frustrating!
- JB

Yeah, I figured it out. I was able to turn off the prompts via secpol.msc also....
"HDRDTD" wrote:

As far as turning off the 'user accounts controls' pop-up, it has been discussed many times here in these newsgroups.
Control Panel User Accounts Change Security Settings Clear the check mark in the box.
"chrisgruntled" wrote in message Yeah, I turned off hide system files in folder options, I went and turned it back on so I don't see those folders any more. Now if I can only figure out how to tun off the "user account controls" pop-up. every time i change a setting. I'm account administrator......don't need some dumb pop-up telling me that I'm changing a system setting.. :/
"Jimmy Brush" wrote:
Hello,
If you are talking about these locations:
\Users\<account>\Documents\Video, Pictures, Music and \Documents and Settings
These aren't used by the system and the system doesn't allow access to them... administrator or not... I think they are just there as some sort of application compatability hack ... there is no reason to try to access them.
However, I do think that if Microsoft is going to make them visible, they should tell you more information about them than access denied (such as, "These folders are here for application compatability purposes and cannot be accessed" or somesuch) ... or, perhaps make them permanently hidden ... anything besides "Access Denied", as that is frustrating!
- JB

"chrisgruntled" wrote:

This is getting real annoying ! I have tuned on the administrator account, gave myself administrator privaleges and even tryed some of the suggestions to right click on windows explorer and run as administrator. and still gettinng access denied. It seems mostly on the shortcut folders.... Still wondering why those shotcut folders are there??. It's like dealing with a really bad norton product!! Need to click on a prompt everywhere you go !!

I had the same problem until I went to the help file and properties,where I was able to make additions to "rights" as administrator,BUT I discovered that it requires a "restart" for the additions and changes to become active.
"chrisgruntled" wrote:

This is getting real annoying ! I have tuned on the administrator account, gave myself administrator privaleges and even tryed some of the suggestions to right click on windows explorer and run as administrator. and still gettinng access denied. It seems mostly on the shortcut folders.... Still wondering why those shotcut folders are there??. It's like dealing with a really bad norton product!! Need to click on a prompt everywhere you go !!

"chrisgruntled" wrote:

This is getting real annoying ! I have tuned on the administrator account, gave myself administrator privaleges and even tryed some of the suggestions to right click on windows explorer and run as administrator. and still gettinng access denied. It seems mostly on the shortcut folders.... Still wondering why those shotcut folders are there??. It's like dealing with a really bad norton product!! Need to click on a prompt everywhere you go !!

If you want to access the folders, in the security tab, remove the entry that denies access to the Everyone group.
You need to do this for every folder though.
"chrisgruntled" wrote:

This is getting real annoying ! I have tuned on the administrator account, gave myself administrator privaleges and even tryed some of the suggestions to right click on windows explorer and run as administrator. and still gettinng access denied. It seems mostly on the shortcut folders.... Still wondering why those shotcut folders are there??. It's like dealing with a really bad norton product!! Need to click on a prompt everywhere you go !!