Vista - access the Documents and Settings Folder in Vista Home Premium

I need to access the Documents and Settings Folder in Vista Home Premium. In
Windows Explorer, I looked at the Properties of this folder by right clicking
on the folder and selecting Properties. Under the Sharing tab, it says not
shared. So I clicked Advanced Sharing, then put a check next to Share this
Folder and then clicked Apply at the bottom. The following error message
appears: "An error occurred while trying to share Documents and Settings.
Access is denied. The shared resource was not created at this time." I also
checked the Security Tab and applied full control to Everyone, System, and
Administrators. Can anyone tell me how to access this folder? I want to put a
folder into C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/5.0/Photo Creations/Special Effects.

BJKatein wrote:
> I need to access the Documents and Settings Folder in Vista Home Premium. In
> Windows Explorer, I looked at the Properties of this folder by right clicking
> on the folder and selecting Properties. Under the Sharing tab, it says not
> shared. So I clicked Advanced Sharing, then put a check next to Share this
> Folder and then clicked Apply at the bottom. The following error message
> appears: "An error occurred while trying to share Documents and Settings.
> Access is denied. The shared resource was not created at this time." I also
> checked the Security Tab and applied full control to Everyone, System, and
> Administrators. Can anyone tell me how to access this folder? I want to put a
> folder into C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
> Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/5.0/Photo Creations/Special Effects.

There is no "Documents and Settings" folder in Vista. That is just a
junction there for backwards compatibility. You need to be looking at
C:\Users\Your-Username instead (assuming Vista is on C.


Malke
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Thanks for the info. I looked into it and was able to complete the task.
Thank you for taking the time to give a response. I have since realized that
others had asked similar questions and the answer was in their posts.

"Malke" wrote:

> BJKatein wrote:
> > I need to access the Documents and Settings Folder in Vista Home Premium. In
> > Windows Explorer, I looked at the Properties of this folder by right clicking
> > on the folder and selecting Properties. Under the Sharing tab, it says not
> > shared. So I clicked Advanced Sharing, then put a check next to Share this
> > Folder and then clicked Apply at the bottom. The following error message
> > appears: "An error occurred while trying to share Documents and Settings.
> > Access is denied. The shared resource was not created at this time." I also
> > checked the Security Tab and applied full control to Everyone, System, and
> > Administrators. Can anyone tell me how to access this folder? I want to put a
> > folder into C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
> > Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/5.0/Photo Creations/Special Effects.
>
> There is no "Documents and Settings" folder in Vista. That is just a
> junction there for backwards compatibility. You need to be looking at
> C:\Users\Your-Username instead (assuming Vista is on C.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

BJKatein wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I looked into it and was able to complete the task.
> Thank you for taking the time to give a response. I have since realized that
> others had asked similar questions and the answer was in their posts.

Glad that sorted it for you. Yes, it is always good to search for
answers first. ;-) The best place to look for answers in newsgroups is
Google Groups. Use the Advanced Search feature and you can limit the
search to microsoft.public.*, your language, time period desired, etc.


Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
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