SOLVED "you will need to provide administrator permission to change these settings"

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I recently re-installed Windows 7 and all of a sudden I was having access denied problems which had never occurred before.
I have managed to fix all of these apart from one:-
When I try to change the icon via the properties of a desktop item I get:-
"you will need to provide administrator permission to change these settings"
I am the only user of the PC and my account is an administrator account.

As I said, I never had this problem prior to the re-install.
I have searched and searched but have yet to find any answers or solutions.

Any help or info would be helpful.
 

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Even though you are an Administrator you are not "The" Admin assigned ownership of system files and folders. To protect users from other users the user folders are protected and normally accessed via library pointers, not directly.

Install the "Take Ownership" script and then Take Ownership of C:\Users\HairyScot\Desktop .

See if it works after that.
 
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Even though you are an Administrator you are not "The" Admin assigned ownership of system files and folders. To protect users from other users the user folders are protected and normally accessed via library pointers, not directly.

Install the "Take Ownership" script and then Take Ownership of C:\Users\HairyScot\Desktop .

See if it works after that.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Tried it. Made no difference.
 

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Can you take a screenshot of what you are trying to change?
 
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I have just discovered that it is only one shortcut that is giving the problem.
Hadn't occurred to me to check any others till now.
It's obviously something strange with that application.
I'll flag this thread solved and investigate further.
Thanks for your help.
 

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