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Error Message: “Access is Denied" on Windows Vista
You may get an error message saying “Access is Denied" when you try to access the 'My Documents', 'My Music', 'My Pictures', and 'My Videos' folders in Windows Vista.
After successfully upgrading your Windows XP system to Windows Vista you cannot access the folders given below. You will encounter “Access is Denied" Error Message.
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\My Documents When files in ‘My Documents’, ‘My Music’, ‘My Pictures’, and ‘My Videos’ folders in Windows XP are transferred to the following folders in Windows Vista this error message pops up.
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%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Documents
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Music
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Pictures
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Videos
After up-gradation ‘My Documents’, ‘My Music’, ‘My Pictures’, and ‘My Videos' folders become junction points. Junction point is a protected operating system folder, which points to another folder. Junction point does not contain any data or other files.
You cannot access these junction points because Windows Vista sets the Read permissions of the 'My Documents', 'My Music', 'My Pictures', and 'My Videos' folders to Deny after up-gradation. You are redirected to the following folders if you try to access these junction points:
You cannot access these junction points because Windows Vista sets the Read permissions of the 'My Documents', 'My Music', 'My Pictures', and 'My Videos' folders to Deny after up-gradation. You are redirected to the following folders if you try to access these junction points:
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\DocumentsAfter upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista, Junction point default settings are:
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Music
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Pictures
%systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Videos
- Junction point attribute is hidden.
- Junction point Read permission set to Deny.
- The system will become unstable if you change these default settings.
You have to redirect links if 'My Documents', 'My Music', 'My Pictures', and 'My Videos' links in the Start menu do not point to the 'Documents', 'Music', 'Pictures', and 'Videos' folders.
Follow these steps to manually redirect these links to the correct folders.
- Click
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You have to select 'Documents', 'Pictures', 'Music' and 'Videos' folders individually to redirect links. For example we are redirecting Pictures folder here.
- Right click Pictures folder, and then click Properties.
- Go to Location tab in Pictures Properties window.
- Enter the correct target location in place of wrong target location.
Change %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\My Documents\My Pictures to %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Pictures.
- Click Apply and OK.
If you failed to find 'Documents', 'Music', 'Pictures', and 'Videos' folders in Windows Vista after up-gradation, you have to search for them in the hidden folders as mentioned below:
%systemdrive%\$INPLACE.~TR\Machine \Data\Documents and Settings\user_name\My DocumentsFollow these steps to view files in the hidden folders:
%systemdrive%\$INPLACE.~TR\Machine\Data\Documents and Settings\user_name\My Documents\My Music
%systemdrive%\$INPLACE.~TR\Machine\Data\Documents and Settings\user_name\My Documents\My Pictures
%systemdrive%\$INPLACE.~TR\Machine\Data\Documents and Settings\user_name\My Documents\My Videos
- Click
- Type windows explorer in Start Search box.
- Click Windows Explorer under Programs.
- Windows Explorer window will open.
- Click Organize and then click Folder and Search Options in Windows Explorer window.
- Go to View tab in Folder Options window.
- In Advanced settings list, click "Show hidden files and folders" radio button which is under Hidden files and folders.
- Click Apply and OK.
Note: After you perform a Disk Cleanup task in Windows Vista these hidden folders may be deleted.
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