Thanks Dave, and to you. BTW, my method with programs is to research them, and to go for those vouched for by reputable sites. I've not - so far - had any problems.

I do know the feeling! I will tell you though, that on another forum someone mentioned an app called TakeOwnershipEx . I downloaded this, it puts a menu item in Explorer, and when I ran it, it gave...

I went back in to Explorer, and found a second entry for Everyone. This entry showed Deny. When I changed that to Allow, the folder was unlocked. In case anyone else finds this too! And i hope it...

I too have done all this and STILL can't get access. I get an error message about failing to enumerate all objects in container. It's Documents and settings! I also cannot find the TakeOwnershipEx...

I agree; after hours of work I discovered that One Drive is slowing the computer to a crawl, and the only way prevent this is to unlink One Drive altogether. Anyone else had this?