I've got exactly the same fault after doing what I thought was a "clean"
install of Vista. It actually left most of drive C intact and renamed the
original Windows directory to Windows.old. I think he problem is that
Documents and Settings is still owned by my XP persona.....still working on
that one.
"Sean McLeod" wrote:
> Not sure why you needed to enable the administrator account.
>
> When I browse into c:\users\administrator I get an UAC prompt, which I okay
> and then I can continue browsing.
>
> And obivously browsing into my own account, c:\users\sean there is no UAC
> prompt and I have no problems browsing that sub-folder.
>
> You say "Documents and Settings" folder. Is this from an XP upgrade? In
> clean installs of Vista they've changed that to \users.
>
> Cheers
>
> "Ben Griffiths" <BenGriffiths@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news
A74CD82-A997-46B5-B1A4-519513059EC3@microsoft.com...
> > After finally managing to enable the Administrator account, I still
> > apparently don't have permission to access the Documents and Settings
> > folder.
> > Neither can I access the Application Data in my User folder.
> >
> > So far, Vista is being extremely resrictive... I don't suppose there is a
> > 'Let me in' tick box anywhere? Alternatively, how can I actually gain
> > access
> > to these folders? Vista advises me to use the Security tab, but one cannot
> > 'Apply' any changes you make.
>