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Originally Posted by RareBear
Permissions have been "turned off" for everything. But I still can't access certain folders. What's frustrating is when a program running in the background on my XP x64 "backup" computer queries this Win 7 x64 computer for data, and that irritating "you do not have permission" flag jumps up and effectively "stops" the program from running. I got better things to do than sit in front of this thing all day and wait to figure out if a program is going to complete.
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It almost sounds like you may have pointed the programs to use a directory that doesn't exist. Clifford is quite correct in that many of the "folders" you see are only links, this is to preserve legacy programs and keep them from breaking.
"Documents & Settings" is just a link to C:\Users\USERNAME\ for example... but the only way to access it is to navigate through C:\Users\USERNAME\.
For XP users this would be confusing, but these changes in the file system structure were first implemented with Vista.
It gets even more complicated, but if you want to wrap your head around it give this a read for a nice primer:
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/200...isk-space.aspx
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