lack permissions to my documents

I get a message "you don't currently have permission to access this folder", when I try to open my documents folder, which is located in the default location in my user account on the C drive.
hmmm.
I can click on the error message and gain temporary access, but after the next reboot, I am back to square one.
I checked who is the owner of the folder, and it says I am the owner, and I have full control.
but I don't.

i had this similar issue once in 8.1 but it was because the FS was Hosed. i think in Win10 we were moved to the new FS from latest builds (ala a clean install) i could be mistaken but if your still using NTFS, i'd run check disk to rule out a bad FS/corrupted permissions.

CaelThunderwing said:

i had this similar issue once in 8.1 but it was because the FS was Hosed. i think in Win10 we were moved to the new FS from latest builds (ala a clean install) i could be mistaken but if your still using NTFS, i'd run check disk to rule out a bad FS/corrupted permissions.

yes NTFS, but no errors found.

Are you using a Microsoft account or a Local account?
Does a User account log-in show at startup where you then enter a password?

Have you verified the User account name (at command prompt type "echo "%username%" ) to verify you are logged in to the correct account.

Try the take ownership registry file. Just don't use it on windows directory. You can use on some directories within the windows directory but you need to be-careful on which. Cursor & Media directory should be ok to use that on.




I used it also on
C:\users
C:\Documents and Settings
C:\ProgramData

I used take ownership on the c:\windows and I ended up having to restore from a backup.


After Merging the take ownership. Right click on the directory and choose take ownership.

groze said:

Try the take ownership registry file. Just don't use it on windows directory. You can use on some directories within the windows directory but you need to be-careful on which. Cursor & Media directory should be ok to use that on.




I used it also on
C:\users
C:\Documents and Settings
C:\ProgramData

I used take ownership on the c:\windows and I ended up having to restore from a backup.


After Merging the take ownership. Right click on the directory and choose take ownership.

okay, so I open regedit, right?
how do I find "C:\Documents and Settings" in there?
that's what I want to take ownership of.

Nope. That not what I was talking about. There is a registry file that is called takeownership, that allows you take ownership of a folder or file so you can access them. After you merge the takeownership registry file (You can get the file on the web) into the registry.

You right click on the folder (Not in the registry), then you choose take ownership options.

If you wanted to take ownership of C:\Documents and Settings. You would right click on that folder and choose take ownership. Then a uac prompt will ask you if you want to allow the changes, and you click on yes.

groze said:

Nope. That not what I was talking about. There is a registry file that is called takeownership, that allows you take ownership of a folder or file so you can access them. After you merge the takeownership registry file (You can get the file on the web) into the registry.

You right click on the folder (Not in the registry), then you choose take ownership options.

If you wanted to take ownership of C:\Documents and Settings. You would right click on that folder and choose take ownership. Then a uac prompt will ask you if you want to allow the changes, and you click on yes.

got it, and did it. but I still receive that annoying message that I don't currently have access to my documents, and I need to regain access every time, on a temporary basis.

Sorry, I wish I could help further. I have not tested take ownership registry file on the newest build of 10 because I haven't got the new build of windows 10 yet. If the take ownership registry file doesn't work, it will make it a lot harder and more complicated to take ownership of c:\documents and settings folder. It is still possible but it has to be manually done and I am not good at explain how to do that.

groze said:

Sorry, I wish I could help further. I have not tested take ownership registry file on the newest build of 10 because I haven't got the new build of windows 10 yet. If the take ownership registry file doesn't work, it will make it a lot harder and more complicated to take ownership of c:\documents and settings folder. It is still possible but it has to be manually done and I am not good at explain how to do that.

I just tried it out to see, but I anyways am the owner of documents, according to what windows tells me, so that's probably not where the problem lies. It seems to be the kind of glitch that goes away only when you do a clean reinstall.
thanks for telling me about this very useful tool.