Vista - Documents and Settings

I'm trying to look into my "Documents and Settings" subdirectory to
find some configurtion files that Adobe apparently insists on storing
there. Then I try to look there with the normal file Explorer I get
an error message:

"C:\Documents and Settings is not accessible. Accessis denied"

Now, I'm doing this from the main Admin control account. If the sys
admin can't access the directory, who can?

How do I get Vista to play nice?

Bill

The documetns and settings directory is really a junction that points to
c:/user. To find the files that you are looking for go to c:/user/<user
name>/<name>


"Bill Martin" wrote:

Right-click the folder in question and select "Take Ownership". After a
streaming DOS screen, you should be able to acces the folder normally.

Buddha

"Bill Martin" <martin_spamtrap@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Buddha
Read the following written by Microsoft.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756982.aspx

"Buddha" wrote:

I'd be a liar if I claimed to understand that article. All I know is that
after "Taking Ownership", I am able to look into the folders, which I
couldn't do before.

Buddha

"rac8006" <rac8006@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you want to get a better idea what a junction is do this.
go to c:\users\<some directory> and create a file. Now go to documents and
settings\<some directory> you will see the file that you just created.
Typing the following in a cmd window cd c:\documents and settings\<user>
would take you to the same place that cd c:\user\<user> would take you. This
is what a junction is used for.

"Buddha" wrote: