Why Don't I Have Full-Admin Rights to Any Photos on my Desktop?

gplea · 07 Jun 2023

I have Ver. 22H2. Just a couple of weeks ago I KNOW I had FULL ADMIN rights to copy any file/photo off of my desktop. Now, I can't send anything from my desktop, and I desperately need to send scrnshots to support groups but I can't cuz some MSoft gremlin changed it on the fly.

It's got to be something simple bcuz I know I didn't intentionally change any permissions for something like that.

Also, I changed the UAC controls to the bare minim and it STILL won't give me control. I've also run a very good virus control and that doesn't help either.

Samuria · 07 Jun 2023

What are the security rights on the desktop? Are you logged in with the account for that desktop

gplea · 07 Jun 2023

Thanks MUCH Samuria for the very prompt reply. Indeed, I AM the ONLY user on this PC, and have full admin rights that I've never changed. As I mentioned, I could manage this simple procedure with NP at all just a couple of weeks ago, and all of a sudden it locks me out. I'm telling you everything I can possibly remember. I may not be a certified, or certifiable geek, but at least I know whether or not I've been peeking under the hood intentionally, or non-intentionally, but I'll be glad to answer whatever questions you have. Again, thanks for the quick reply.

Try3 · 07 Jun 2023

Perhaps your user account has become corrupt?
- Are there any other odd things happening?
- If you open a cmd prompt window and type in echo %UserName% does it report back correctly?

An immediate fix, that addresses the reported symptom rather than the problem itself, is
- Paste this [including the funny symbols] into your File explorer address bar to get to your Desktop folder C:\Users\%UserName%\Desktop [unless you have previously & deliberately relocated it somewhere else in which case just browse there instead.

- - Select the existing text in the address bar by clicking somewhere to the right where it is empty, as indicated by the purple smudge in this diagram, then right-click Paste.
- -

Why Don't I Have Full-Admin Rights to Any Photos on my Desktop?-fe-address-bar.png

- select the Desktop folder itself rather than the files in it,
- right-click on it,
- select Properties,
- select the Security tab,
- Click on the Advanced button,
- near the top of the dialog that appears, on the line starting with Owner,

- - either report back if it already shows your username there,
- - or click on Change,

- - - then in the large text box that appears, type in your user name then click on the Check names button,
- - - when it retrieves your username, click on the OK button,
- - - select your username again in the dialog [that you saw earlier] that it has now fallen back to,
- - - Click on the Add button,
- - - Where it says Select a principal, enter your username as before, Check names, OK,
- - - set the Full control checkbox & click on OK

You can set your UAC back to maximum.

All the best,
Denis

gplea · 07 Jun 2023

Tnx Denis. I did EXACTLY what you said, although, I wasn't sure if I was following the instructions EXACTLY, but after 2-3Xs of reading it slowly I understood where you were going. However, when I Selected the Principle, and clicked on my username (that's what I was kind of unsure about), it didn't work. Is that the same name that it shows on the C:\Users folders (along with Public and Default) that IS my name? If so, then that's what I used as my User name in your instructions, but it didn't work.

I tried attaching the jpg file that was problematic before, and it wouldn't go. I even tried to send that same file to you, and it wouldn't work. What now?

Samuria · 07 Jun 2023

Can you do a screen shot of the security permissions are on the desktop

Try3 · 07 Jun 2023

Who does it currently say the Owner is?

gplea said:

when I Selected the Principle, and clicked on my username (that's what I was kind of unsure about), it didn't work.

When you click on Select the principal, you are shown a text box into which you type your username. There's nowhere to select it.

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gplea said:

Is that the same name that it shows on the C:\Users folders (along with Public and Default) that IS my name? If so, then that's what I used as my User name in your instructions, but it didn't work.

Yes. It's also the name that you see when you open a command prompt and enter the command

Code:

Echo %UserName%

gplea said:

I tried attaching the jpg file that was problematic before, and it wouldn't go. I even tried to send that same file to you, and it wouldn't work.

How to Upload and Post Screenshots and Files - TenForumsTutorials

Best of luck,
Denis

gplea · 09 Jun 2023

Guys, as I mentioned before, what I know about these ridiculous permissions crap could fit inside an atom, and frankly, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! I have enough work to do without worrying about that. But here's where I think the root of the problem is, and no surprise, I think it's with OneDrive. A few weeks I was having to download some HUGE, HUGE .EXE setup files and soundsets for a PreSonus DAW. I had intended to download the .exe files to one partition, and the soundset files to yet another. I had NO INTENTION of sending ANY of them to OneDrive, but this STUPID, STUPID M'SOFT thinks it knows better than me, and kept on sending them to my OneDrive. I did my best to send them to my chosen location. I'm convinced that's the root of the problem. PLEASE show me an easy way to download what I have on OneDrive to an ext. USB drive, and tell MSoft where to go FOREVER!! I HATE how they assume that the avg user has an IT staff on speed dial 24/7. What's worse is I have a bunch of files I need to upload to an audio support site, but I can't bcuz this stupid OS! I HATE THEM! Sorry I'm no more help than that, but I don't know what else to tell you.

3Bit · 10 Jun 2023

Another question: can you remember what was the last thing you did before the problem appeared? did you install something?
Did you do an update? and you try to run a DISM/image health scan?
Before you change/try too much and potentially create a bigger chaos.

gplea · 10 Jun 2023

Thanks 3Bit. As I mentioned in the previous post, with perspective to OneDrive, I was installing a BIG music s'ware DAW that incl at least 15-20Gig of library files. I was obviously installing the exe on C:\, and the other files on another ext. HDD. Unbeknownst to me, OneDrive was making a backup of all of this, which I DID NOT WANT, so I get an urgent error msg saying my drive is about to overflow, and I need to del some of what's on OD. I deleted a few gigs off of it, which again, I didn't want to do. That was almost a month ago. I don't remember what else I did. What I'd LIKE to be able to do is use OD ONLY as if it were an ext. USB drive, and only backup when and what I tell it to backup, and otherwise SHUTUP!
Thanks again for listening to my venting.