I read a post about a person having a similar problem and the fix was taking

ownership of the file. in my case its different though. After upgrading i was

denied access to my videos, my music, and my pictures files saying that i do

not have permision to access these files. when i look to see about the

ownership i found that i was already the owner of the file but that vista had

added the user "everyone" and had its permissions set to deny access to read

and view the file. after many failed atempts to change this i have come the

question of wether or not i have to restore my computer to xp and copy the

files and then put them back on vista or if there is a way to delete or

change the permissions to the user "everyone".

 

p.s. under the user everyone administrators, system, and users have full

access but i believe its the user everyone

jason a. wrote:

> I read a post about a person having a similar problem and the fix was taking

> ownership of the file. in my case its different though. After upgrading i was

> denied access to my videos, my music, and my pictures files saying that i do

> not have permision to access these files. when i look to see about the

> ownership i found that i was already the owner of the file but that vista had

> added the user "everyone" and had its permissions set to deny access to read

> and view the file. after many failed atempts to change this i have come the

> question of wether or not i have to restore my computer to xp and copy the

> files and then put them back on vista or if there is a way to delete or

> change the permissions to the user "everyone".

>

> p.s. under the user everyone administrators, system, and users have full

> access but i believe its the user everyone

 

Hello,

 

These locations do not exist and have been moved/renamed in Windows Vista.

 

They are now the "Music", "Videos", and "Pictures" folders inside of

your user folder.

 

The things that are giving you "access denied" are not folders, they

cannot contain files. They are only there for application compatibility

purposes.

 

Vista should have moved your stuff from your Windows XP location to the

new Vista folders.

 

If not, they may be in a hidden folder called Windows.Old.

 

--

-JB

Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/