Roberto Baggio

Take ownership of the folder

Right click on the folder, properties, permissions, security, advanced,
owner.


"Zarel" <Zarel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67F19F69-7217-4353-B3C7-D2F27AFC95C7@microsoft.com...
> No, that's not the problem; the files are readable all right, they're just
> read-only. You can't rename them, delete them, overwrite them, etc. Even
> when
> I'm booted into Windows XP, I can't write into the system directory of my
> Vista partition.
>
> "RichC" wrote:
>
>> Have you tried going to control panel-folder options-view and selecting
>> "view
>> hidden files". I was able to copy all of my windows.old files from Beta 2
>> into a new profile in RC1 by doing this.
>>
>> "lionel" wrote:
>>
>> > When I try to access my documents in windows.old (to copy to Vista my
>> > documents) I get the message:
>> > "You have been denied premission to access this folder"
>> > so I click the security tab and get
>> > "The requested information is either unavaiable or cannot be displayed"
>> > I am using the administrator account!