So do you have a \Documents and Settings and a \users tree now?
If so then run an administrator version of explorer and take/give ownership
to your Vista user account. You probably then want to copy your data from
the \Documents and Settings tree to the \users tree.
Cheers
"Kev Struthers" <Kev
Struthers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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>> > 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.
>>