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Are my files arranged as they should be?
Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed?
There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately. Use a newsreader instead of the web interface. http://forum.soft32.com/win3/access-...pict45930.html "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Thanks for this, Bob. I have done some more testing and can confirm the 'take ownership' option on the menu only appears if I am pressing 'shift' as I right-click. Right-clicking the folder or file does not bring up the 'Take Ownership' line on the menu. Is this part of the problem? When I click 'Properties' of an individual file in Documents, and click details, most of them are showing as belonging to me anyway ([MyComputerName]\[MyName]). Any further suggestions? PS apologies for this being off-post but can you advise me where I should post for help with the newsgroup itself? I'm not getting notifications of new postings even though I've ticked the box for that and they aren't appearing in my spam folders, either (hence the again-delayed reply to your post). Regards, browniebodrum "Bob" wrote: You should not have to "do shift/right click" in either pane. Just right click. "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, thanks for the response and apologies for the lack of reply until now - I didn't receive any reply notifications and hadn't had chance till today to come and browse the messageboard again. I followed the excellent instructions and added "Take Ownership" to the right-click menu in Vista and that's working correctly. However, I can't navigate to a position where I've got the root folder 'Documents' in the right-hand pane and select it, in order to take ownership, and the 'take ownership' option does not appear if I do shift/right click on the 'Documents' folder where it appears in the left-hand 'Folders' pane. I have taken ownership of the first folder and its contents in 'Documents' but that has not made any difference to the apparent location of 'Documents' or how I have to navigate to it (as described in my original post), via the 'Links' shortcut. On a positive note, the second issue I mentioned (whereby Windows Picture Gallery previously would not allow me to add pictures to the gallery from 'my' Pictures folder) is now resolved, even though I did not specifically take ownership of 'my' Pictures folder. Perhaps the act of running Ownership.reg has fixed some previous errors in the Registry, but I cannot be sure because in my haste to try out the 'Take Ownership' fix, I did not check to see whether the problem still persisted before I applied the fix. I will try and be more methodical in future. ;-) "Bob" wrote: Try taking ownership of the folders. http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. . . |
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Are my files arranged as they should be?
ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version:9.1.008.000
TrueVector version:9.1.008.000 Driver version:9.1.008.000 Anti-virus engine version:8.0.2.42 Anti-virus signature DAT file version:998529760 AntiSpam version:6.0.0.2383 ZoneAlarm ForceField 1.5.53.4 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Scanner 1.5.53.58 ZoneAlarm ForceField Anti-Phishing Database 1.2.104.0 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Sites Database 04.020 "Bob" wrote: Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed? There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately. Use a newsreader instead of the web interface. http://forum.soft32.com/win3/access-...pict45930.html "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Thanks for this, Bob. I have done some more testing and can confirm the 'take ownership' option on the menu only appears if I am pressing 'shift' as I right-click. Right-clicking the folder or file does not bring up the 'Take Ownership' line on the menu. Is this part of the problem? When I click 'Properties' of an individual file in Documents, and click details, most of them are showing as belonging to me anyway ([MyComputerName]\[MyName]). Any further suggestions? PS apologies for this being off-post but can you advise me where I should post for help with the newsgroup itself? I'm not getting notifications of new postings even though I've ticked the box for that and they aren't appearing in my spam folders, either (hence the again-delayed reply to your post). Regards, browniebodrum "Bob" wrote: You should not have to "do shift/right click" in either pane. Just right click. "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, thanks for the response and apologies for the lack of reply until now - I didn't receive any reply notifications and hadn't had chance till today to come and browse the messageboard again. I followed the excellent instructions and added "Take Ownership" to the right-click menu in Vista and that's working correctly. However, I can't navigate to a position where I've got the root folder 'Documents' in the right-hand pane and select it, in order to take ownership, and the 'take ownership' option does not appear if I do shift/right click on the 'Documents' folder where it appears in the left-hand 'Folders' pane. I have taken ownership of the first folder and its contents in 'Documents' but that has not made any difference to the apparent location of 'Documents' or how I have to navigate to it (as described in my original post), via the 'Links' shortcut. On a positive note, the second issue I mentioned (whereby Windows Picture Gallery previously would not allow me to add pictures to the gallery from 'my' Pictures folder) is now resolved, even though I did not specifically take ownership of 'my' Pictures folder. Perhaps the act of running Ownership.reg has fixed some previous errors in the Registry, but I cannot be sure because in my haste to try out the 'Take Ownership' fix, I did not check to see whether the problem still persisted before I applied the fix. I will try and be more methodical in future. ;-) "Bob" wrote: Try taking ownership of the folders. http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. . . . |
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Are my files arranged as they should be?
ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version:9.1.008.000
TrueVector version:9.1.008.000 Driver version:9.1.008.000 Anti-virus engine version:8.0.2.42 Anti-virus signature DAT file version:998529760 AntiSpam version:6.0.0.2383 ZoneAlarm ForceField 1.5.53.4 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Scanner 1.5.53.58 ZoneAlarm ForceField Anti-Phishing Database 1.2.104.0 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Sites Database 04.020 "Bob" wrote: Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed? There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately. Use a newsreader instead of the web interface. http://forum.soft32.com/win3/access-...pict45930.html "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Thanks for this, Bob. I have done some more testing and can confirm the 'take ownership' option on the menu only appears if I am pressing 'shift' as I right-click. Right-clicking the folder or file does not bring up the 'Take Ownership' line on the menu. Is this part of the problem? When I click 'Properties' of an individual file in Documents, and click details, most of them are showing as belonging to me anyway ([MyComputerName]\[MyName]). Any further suggestions? PS apologies for this being off-post but can you advise me where I should post for help with the newsgroup itself? I'm not getting notifications of new postings even though I've ticked the box for that and they aren't appearing in my spam folders, either (hence the again-delayed reply to your post). Regards, browniebodrum "Bob" wrote: You should not have to "do shift/right click" in either pane. Just right click. "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, thanks for the response and apologies for the lack of reply until now - I didn't receive any reply notifications and hadn't had chance till today to come and browse the messageboard again. I followed the excellent instructions and added "Take Ownership" to the right-click menu in Vista and that's working correctly. However, I can't navigate to a position where I've got the root folder 'Documents' in the right-hand pane and select it, in order to take ownership, and the 'take ownership' option does not appear if I do shift/right click on the 'Documents' folder where it appears in the left-hand 'Folders' pane. I have taken ownership of the first folder and its contents in 'Documents' but that has not made any difference to the apparent location of 'Documents' or how I have to navigate to it (as described in my original post), via the 'Links' shortcut. On a positive note, the second issue I mentioned (whereby Windows Picture Gallery previously would not allow me to add pictures to the gallery from 'my' Pictures folder) is now resolved, even though I did not specifically take ownership of 'my' Pictures folder. Perhaps the act of running Ownership.reg has fixed some previous errors in the Registry, but I cannot be sure because in my haste to try out the 'Take Ownership' fix, I did not check to see whether the problem still persisted before I applied the fix. I will try and be more methodical in future. ;-) "Bob" wrote: Try taking ownership of the folders. http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. . . . |
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Are my files arranged as they should be?
Are there any security programs that were pre-installed on your PC?
"browniebodrum" wrote in message ... ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version:9.1.008.000 TrueVector version:9.1.008.000 Driver version:9.1.008.000 Anti-virus engine version:8.0.2.42 Anti-virus signature DAT file version:998529760 AntiSpam version:6.0.0.2383 ZoneAlarm ForceField 1.5.53.4 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Scanner 1.5.53.58 ZoneAlarm ForceField Anti-Phishing Database 1.2.104.0 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Sites Database 04.020 "Bob" wrote: Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed? There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately. Use a newsreader instead of the web interface. http://forum.soft32.com/win3/access-...pict45930.html "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Thanks for this, Bob. I have done some more testing and can confirm the 'take ownership' option on the menu only appears if I am pressing 'shift' as I right-click. Right-clicking the folder or file does not bring up the 'Take Ownership' line on the menu. Is this part of the problem? When I click 'Properties' of an individual file in Documents, and click details, most of them are showing as belonging to me anyway ([MyComputerName]\[MyName]). Any further suggestions? PS apologies for this being off-post but can you advise me where I should post for help with the newsgroup itself? I'm not getting notifications of new postings even though I've ticked the box for that and they aren't appearing in my spam folders, either (hence the again-delayed reply to your post). Regards, browniebodrum "Bob" wrote: You should not have to "do shift/right click" in either pane. Just right click. "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, thanks for the response and apologies for the lack of reply until now - I didn't receive any reply notifications and hadn't had chance till today to come and browse the messageboard again. I followed the excellent instructions and added "Take Ownership" to the right-click menu in Vista and that's working correctly. However, I can't navigate to a position where I've got the root folder 'Documents' in the right-hand pane and select it, in order to take ownership, and the 'take ownership' option does not appear if I do shift/right click on the 'Documents' folder where it appears in the left-hand 'Folders' pane. I have taken ownership of the first folder and its contents in 'Documents' but that has not made any difference to the apparent location of 'Documents' or how I have to navigate to it (as described in my original post), via the 'Links' shortcut. On a positive note, the second issue I mentioned (whereby Windows Picture Gallery previously would not allow me to add pictures to the gallery from 'my' Pictures folder) is now resolved, even though I did not specifically take ownership of 'my' Pictures folder. Perhaps the act of running Ownership.reg has fixed some previous errors in the Registry, but I cannot be sure because in my haste to try out the 'Take Ownership' fix, I did not check to see whether the problem still persisted before I applied the fix. I will try and be more methodical in future. ;-) "Bob" wrote: Try taking ownership of the folders. http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. . . . |
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Are my files arranged as they should be?
Are there any security programs that were pre-installed on your PC?
"browniebodrum" wrote in message ... ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version:9.1.008.000 TrueVector version:9.1.008.000 Driver version:9.1.008.000 Anti-virus engine version:8.0.2.42 Anti-virus signature DAT file version:998529760 AntiSpam version:6.0.0.2383 ZoneAlarm ForceField 1.5.53.4 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Scanner 1.5.53.58 ZoneAlarm ForceField Anti-Phishing Database 1.2.104.0 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Sites Database 04.020 "Bob" wrote: Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed? There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately. Use a newsreader instead of the web interface. http://forum.soft32.com/win3/access-...pict45930.html "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Thanks for this, Bob. I have done some more testing and can confirm the 'take ownership' option on the menu only appears if I am pressing 'shift' as I right-click. Right-clicking the folder or file does not bring up the 'Take Ownership' line on the menu. Is this part of the problem? When I click 'Properties' of an individual file in Documents, and click details, most of them are showing as belonging to me anyway ([MyComputerName]\[MyName]). Any further suggestions? PS apologies for this being off-post but can you advise me where I should post for help with the newsgroup itself? I'm not getting notifications of new postings even though I've ticked the box for that and they aren't appearing in my spam folders, either (hence the again-delayed reply to your post). Regards, browniebodrum "Bob" wrote: You should not have to "do shift/right click" in either pane. Just right click. "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, thanks for the response and apologies for the lack of reply until now - I didn't receive any reply notifications and hadn't had chance till today to come and browse the messageboard again. I followed the excellent instructions and added "Take Ownership" to the right-click menu in Vista and that's working correctly. However, I can't navigate to a position where I've got the root folder 'Documents' in the right-hand pane and select it, in order to take ownership, and the 'take ownership' option does not appear if I do shift/right click on the 'Documents' folder where it appears in the left-hand 'Folders' pane. I have taken ownership of the first folder and its contents in 'Documents' but that has not made any difference to the apparent location of 'Documents' or how I have to navigate to it (as described in my original post), via the 'Links' shortcut. On a positive note, the second issue I mentioned (whereby Windows Picture Gallery previously would not allow me to add pictures to the gallery from 'my' Pictures folder) is now resolved, even though I did not specifically take ownership of 'my' Pictures folder. Perhaps the act of running Ownership.reg has fixed some previous errors in the Registry, but I cannot be sure because in my haste to try out the 'Take Ownership' fix, I did not check to see whether the problem still persisted before I applied the fix. I will try and be more methodical in future. ;-) "Bob" wrote: Try taking ownership of the folders. http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. . . . |
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Are my files arranged as they should be?
It did have Norton pre-loaded on it but (after a lot of message about) I got
rid of it using something I downloaded and following advice on various forums - sorry I can't say exactly what/how, now, I can't remember. I've discovered something else since I last posted. First, the original problem with not being able to add 'my' Pictures folder to the Windows Picture Gallery (while *in* WPG) still persists (I still get the error saying the folder is a hidden or system folder (even though I've checked and I'm the owner). Also, there is a folder with the name 'Users' on my Desktop which contains 4 folders which have various variations of NTUSER.DAT as their name. A number of posts on the web say this folder is a hive for the Registry, BUT that it should be in the Documents and Settings folder. Is this part of the problem, do you think? "Bob" wrote: Are there any security programs that were pre-installed on your PC? "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version:9.1.008.000 TrueVector version:9.1.008.000 Driver version:9.1.008.000 Anti-virus engine version:8.0.2.42 Anti-virus signature DAT file version:998529760 AntiSpam version:6.0.0.2383 ZoneAlarm ForceField 1.5.53.4 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Scanner 1.5.53.58 ZoneAlarm ForceField Anti-Phishing Database 1.2.104.0 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Sites Database 04.020 "Bob" wrote: Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed? There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately. Use a newsreader instead of the web interface. http://forum.soft32.com/win3/access-...pict45930.html "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Thanks for this, Bob. I have done some more testing and can confirm the 'take ownership' option on the menu only appears if I am pressing 'shift' as I right-click. Right-clicking the folder or file does not bring up the 'Take Ownership' line on the menu. Is this part of the problem? When I click 'Properties' of an individual file in Documents, and click details, most of them are showing as belonging to me anyway ([MyComputerName]\[MyName]). Any further suggestions? PS apologies for this being off-post but can you advise me where I should post for help with the newsgroup itself? I'm not getting notifications of new postings even though I've ticked the box for that and they aren't appearing in my spam folders, either (hence the again-delayed reply to your post). Regards, browniebodrum "Bob" wrote: You should not have to "do shift/right click" in either pane. Just right click. "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, thanks for the response and apologies for the lack of reply until now - I didn't receive any reply notifications and hadn't had chance till today to come and browse the messageboard again. I followed the excellent instructions and added "Take Ownership" to the right-click menu in Vista and that's working correctly. However, I can't navigate to a position where I've got the root folder 'Documents' in the right-hand pane and select it, in order to take ownership, and the 'take ownership' option does not appear if I do shift/right click on the 'Documents' folder where it appears in the left-hand 'Folders' pane. I have taken ownership of the first folder and its contents in 'Documents' but that has not made any difference to the apparent location of 'Documents' or how I have to navigate to it (as described in my original post), via the 'Links' shortcut. On a positive note, the second issue I mentioned (whereby Windows Picture Gallery previously would not allow me to add pictures to the gallery from 'my' Pictures folder) is now resolved, even though I did not specifically take ownership of 'my' Pictures folder. Perhaps the act of running Ownership.reg has fixed some previous errors in the Registry, but I cannot be sure because in my haste to try out the 'Take Ownership' fix, I did not check to see whether the problem still persisted before I applied the fix. I will try and be more methodical in future. ;-) "Bob" wrote: Try taking ownership of the folders. http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. . . . . |
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Are my files arranged as they should be?
It did have Norton pre-loaded on it but (after a lot of message about) I got
rid of it using something I downloaded and following advice on various forums - sorry I can't say exactly what/how, now, I can't remember. I've discovered something else since I last posted. First, the original problem with not being able to add 'my' Pictures folder to the Windows Picture Gallery (while *in* WPG) still persists (I still get the error saying the folder is a hidden or system folder (even though I've checked and I'm the owner). Also, there is a folder with the name 'Users' on my Desktop which contains 4 folders which have various variations of NTUSER.DAT as their name. A number of posts on the web say this folder is a hive for the Registry, BUT that it should be in the Documents and Settings folder. Is this part of the problem, do you think? "Bob" wrote: Are there any security programs that were pre-installed on your PC? "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version:9.1.008.000 TrueVector version:9.1.008.000 Driver version:9.1.008.000 Anti-virus engine version:8.0.2.42 Anti-virus signature DAT file version:998529760 AntiSpam version:6.0.0.2383 ZoneAlarm ForceField 1.5.53.4 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Scanner 1.5.53.58 ZoneAlarm ForceField Anti-Phishing Database 1.2.104.0 ZoneAlarm ForceField Spyware Sites Database 04.020 "Bob" wrote: Which firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware or security suite is installed? There are some that cause problems which don’t always appear immediately. Use a newsreader instead of the web interface. http://forum.soft32.com/win3/access-...pict45930.html "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Thanks for this, Bob. I have done some more testing and can confirm the 'take ownership' option on the menu only appears if I am pressing 'shift' as I right-click. Right-clicking the folder or file does not bring up the 'Take Ownership' line on the menu. Is this part of the problem? When I click 'Properties' of an individual file in Documents, and click details, most of them are showing as belonging to me anyway ([MyComputerName]\[MyName]). Any further suggestions? PS apologies for this being off-post but can you advise me where I should post for help with the newsgroup itself? I'm not getting notifications of new postings even though I've ticked the box for that and they aren't appearing in my spam folders, either (hence the again-delayed reply to your post). Regards, browniebodrum "Bob" wrote: You should not have to "do shift/right click" in either pane. Just right click. "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, thanks for the response and apologies for the lack of reply until now - I didn't receive any reply notifications and hadn't had chance till today to come and browse the messageboard again. I followed the excellent instructions and added "Take Ownership" to the right-click menu in Vista and that's working correctly. However, I can't navigate to a position where I've got the root folder 'Documents' in the right-hand pane and select it, in order to take ownership, and the 'take ownership' option does not appear if I do shift/right click on the 'Documents' folder where it appears in the left-hand 'Folders' pane. I have taken ownership of the first folder and its contents in 'Documents' but that has not made any difference to the apparent location of 'Documents' or how I have to navigate to it (as described in my original post), via the 'Links' shortcut. On a positive note, the second issue I mentioned (whereby Windows Picture Gallery previously would not allow me to add pictures to the gallery from 'my' Pictures folder) is now resolved, even though I did not specifically take ownership of 'my' Pictures folder. Perhaps the act of running Ownership.reg has fixed some previous errors in the Registry, but I cannot be sure because in my haste to try out the 'Take Ownership' fix, I did not check to see whether the problem still persisted before I applied the fix. I will try and be more methodical in future. ;-) "Bob" wrote: Try taking ownership of the folders. http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm "browniebodrum" wrote in message ... When I got my Vista Business laptop in spring I had a lot of problems accessing folders which I'd transferred over from my previous laptop which was running XP, and I kept getting messages to say I did not have permission to open the folder (or something like that) even though I am the only user of the Vista machine (as I was on the XP machine) and I have administrator rights in Vista. I'd like to know if my folder structure is like that of other Vista users or if I've got some irregularities there which are still causing indexing, search and access issues. For example, if I click on 'Start' (the Windows logo button or key), then click the 'Documents' link under [My name ] (at the top of the right-hand column, in black), Windows Explorer opens and in the address line at the top it says [My Name] Documents. In the left-hand pane, 'Documents' is highlighted and in the right-hand pane, sure enough, I can see all the sub-folders of 'Documents' (i.e. what was 'My Documents' in XP). BUT if I scroll up to the top of the left-hand pane and click [My Name], in the right-hand pane I then see a number of folders, but Documents is not one of them. I know by trial and error that to get to 'Documents' from here, I have to click on a folder in the right-hand pane called 'Links', then click on a SHORTCUT to Documents in the Links folder, to get me to the 'Documents' folder. Is this the same for everyone? Another possibly related example is that when I use Windows Picture Gallery, I simply can't add any pictures to the Gallery from 'my' Pictures, I've had to put them all in the Public Pictures folder to be able to view them using Gallery. (Using Windows Live Picture Gallery makes no difference). I get a message saying I don't have permission to access 'my' Pictures folder or that it's a system folder. I'm obviously not understanding something, so I'd be grateful for help or pointers to more reading. . . . . |
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