Vista Tutorial - Denied Permission to windows.old files! PLEASE HELP!

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!

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!

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!

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!

http://www.vistabase.co.uk/articles/...tm#Windows.old


--
Richard Hay
Windows Live Butterfly
Windows RC2 (Build 5744)
http://WindowsObserver.com

"Roberto Baggio" <baggio94@telus.net> wrote in message
news:_dnYg.141451$5R2.35471@pd7urf3no...
> 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!
>
>