pjp wrote:
In article ,
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink says...

Java Jive wrote:
On 06/02/2019 21:48, Bill in Co wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

I've seen you mention that before, but I spend much of my Windows 7
time in Win Explorer and I never run into those problems.

You never run into "Access Denied" and the smoke and mirrors of
junction points?

Note that you'd be well advised to take a back-up image of the C: drive
before doing this ...

What I do is take ownership of the entire C: drive, this can be done by
rt-clcking it, choosing Security, Advanced, Owner, Edit,
Administrators, Replace on subs, OK.

This on its own may be enought to remove the 'Access denied' message.

Then I give Administrators Full Control over every file. This has to be
done from a command prompt launched as administrator:
icacls C:\*.* /C /Q /L /T /grant Administrators:F

Then I delete the daftest junction points that lead to circular
references, for example there's one inside every user's Application Data
folder heirarchy that points back up to Application Data. The rest I
ignore.

The first step does indeed remove the Access Denied issues. But I was
noticing something else in Windows Explorer. I see two "My Documents"
folders listed, one just above the other. The second one has the
shortcut arrow, and the first one doesn't. Am I to assume the one with
the shortcut arrow is simply a pointer to the other one, and could be
deleted? I have no idea why it is even in there.

It's there in everyone's system. Does no harm so leave it alone given no
idea of consequences of deleting it. Mind you, I get Access Denied
trying to do anything with it so ... ?

If you follow Java Jive's "fixes", you no longer will get "Access Denied".
:-)
Sometimes I need to copy files into a directory such as My Documents, so
when you have two, it can be a bit confusing as to which one to use. Just
"little" stuff like that (aka obfuscation). And IIRC, before I ran the Java
Jive fix, I, too, got an "Access Denied" on one of them (I think the
shortcut one). As to why that should be so, only God knows.