D&S lock-out

[Rex A. Butcher]

What ho one and all,

Some time ago, I purchased a refurbed Dell desktop with W7 Pro installed. I have DeCrapified, etc, but surprisingly, there was nothing installed.

However, I hate being locked-out of my computer, and for whatever reasons, I cannot open Documents & Settings. I have used Properties to reset the Security to allow all users, etc, but still, I am unable to open anything.

Is this a default W7 situation, or was the install set to prevent any fiddling around?

Toodle pip and thanks

Rex

[jdc2000]

You may be looking at a junction point instead of a real folder.

Possibly useful links:

https://www.sevenforums.com/general-...-settings.html

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...6-7df2ccbecd88

https://www.computing.net/answers/wi...der/14130.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/...ss-denied.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/37...-settings-win7

https://www.google.com/search?source....0.hMnaPr_5PQQ

[Midknyte]

Yes, it's a junction point. Users replaces Docs&Settings in Vista and higher. Don't mess with the security settings. It's there for legacy support only.

https://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm

[Rex A. Butcher]

Gentlemen,

Thanks for the links and explanation; seems like I was barking up the wrong tree. Will try 'User.'