Re: Shared Documents Folder renamed and unaccessible

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/01/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:52:37 -0800

It's complete name is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents.
Check the properties and see that this isn't made private. If the box is
checked, but grayed out, you may have to boot to safe mode to fix the
permissions so that all Users may read and write this folder. 

-- 
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
"Danny" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:033c01c3b7a8$eee723e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> This is regarding Windows XP Pro.
>
> In My Computer there are several folders under "Files
> Stored on This Computer" one of them is "Shared
> Documents". I am not sure how this happened but for some
> reason this folder got renamed "Documents" and I cannot
> access it even with Administrator privileges. This
> happened once before and logging out solved the problem
> (the folder was again named "Shared Documents" but now it
> happened again and logging out or restarting doesn't
> help. The folder is named "Documents" for all users of
> the computer and is not accessible to anyone.
>
> Does anyone know a fix?
>
> Thanks.

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