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Access to A Misplaced WindowsApps System Folder
After Win 10 Anniversary Update installed I experienced a continuous BSOD. When Dell tech support could not ascertain the cause, I was advised to reformat my C: partition and reinstall Windows. The initial re installation (by Dell) apparently failed to locate & install the correct driver for my network adapter, but that was not confirmed until after I was directed to do another reinstall of Windows. I did so via the reset option, located the updated adapter driver and every thing seemed OK -- until I discovered that a folder on my E: drive partition containing about 50 Word .dot Templates, titled "Global Templates" had somehow been moved into a newly created folder on the E: drive called "WindowsApps".
Following suggestions in a previous thread on this Form from a year ago, I was able to change the ownership of the Windows Apps folder itself, but the "Global Templates" sub-folder is still inaccessible. When I try to Open it, the dialogue box says it is "not accessible" and "Access is denied." When I attempt to Share the folder and add permissions, the message is "An error occurred while trying to share Group Templates. Bad Data. The shared resource was not created at this time."
When I go to the Security tab in Properties it says "The requested security information is either unavailable or can't be displayed."
There is also a WindowsApp folder in Programs on the C: Drive.
Does anyone have any explanation for how this alternate WindowsApp folder may have been created and, more importantly, if there is anyway to remove my Global Templates folder. Reconstructing 50 or so complicated Word templates is going to be a real downer.