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Explorer: How do I get perms to browse Documents and Settings?

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Al Dykes

Flightless Bird
I have a basic W7/home premium system and want to use file explorer to
browse Documents and Settings for my user id. When I click on it I get
"access is denied". I'm using the user id that was created during
system setup.

I don't see anything that would let me run with elevated privilages.

What should I be doing?

Thanks
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Al Dykes
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Tom Lake

Flightless Bird
"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
news:i0jc6q$8ti$1@panix1.panix.com...
> I have a basic W7/home premium system and want to use file explorer to
> browse Documents and Settings for my user id. When I click on it I get
> "access is denied". I'm using the user id that was created during
> system setup.
>
> I don't see anything that would let me run with elevated privilages.
>
> What should I be doing?
>
> Thanks


In Win 7, that's not an actual directory. It's just a fake name
to placate programs that are looking for that specific name.
All the data that used to be in there in earlier OSes is now
in Users.

Tom Lake
 
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Seth

Flightless Bird
"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
news:i0jc6q$8ti$1@panix1.panix.com...
> I have a basic W7/home premium system and want to use file explorer to
> browse Documents and Settings for my user id. When I click on it I get
> "access is denied". I'm using the user id that was created during
> system setup.
>
> I don't see anything that would let me run with elevated privilages.
>
> What should I be doing?


\Documents and Settings no longer exists. What you are seeing is a "Junction
Point". It is there to transparently point legacy applications in the right
direction.

What you want now is under \Users.
 
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