Re: windows XP help!!! i locked the "Documents & settings" Folder for good

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 06/10/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:58:26 -0700

You have to take ownership of that folder and all its contents for the
Administrators group or your new admin account, then you should be able
to move documents out of that orphaned folder into your new account
profile folder. 

--
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
adrian <oxxalla@yahoo.com> wrote:
> After installing a fresh copy of windows XP (not upgrade)i could not
> access the "Documents & settings/adrian" folder where all my documents
> are stored.
>
> A friend of mine told me is was because of the NTFS security. The
> interesting thing is that only this folder was locked. I keep getting
> an "access deniad" error message for all folders and subfolders, even
> when i log-in as administrator.
>
> I have also kept the same old password but i still cannot open the
> folder. please help.
>
> adrian

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