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> As I was trying to browse got the following message:

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> Documents and settings is not accessible. Access is denied.

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> Cannot browse the folder even after I took the ownership.

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> Any help will be appreciated!</span>

 

Your Vista install is behaving as designed. In Vista, Documents and Settings

is just a junction, a virtual directory there only for backwards

compatibility with older software. It's not "real" and this is why you

can't do anything with it.

 

Malke

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