If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
Hello all and if not too late Merry Christmas.
I have suddenly started receiving the message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. When I install a program. I have tried all of the suggestions that I can find, eg. permissions (full access granted), file blocked (no), file does not exist (it does), but nothing helps. I then tried installing a hidden object game that I was playing until yesterday with no problem but uninstalled when finished. I received exactly the same message when I tried to run it. There have been no changes at all to my system, no extra programs added except for the hidden object games. I have of course done a virus check with negative results. The only thing that I can think of is using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall the program. Is it possible that this could have caused the problem ? Can anyone help ? TIA Packard Bell iXtreme X6620 UK Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.5GHz 6 GBytes DDR2 RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2Gb RAM Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit MoBo Packard Bell EG43M Direct X 11 -- remove fred before emailing |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:40:00 +0000, scbs29
wrote: Hello all and if not too late Merry Christmas. I have suddenly started receiving the message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. When I install a program. I have tried all of the suggestions that I can find, eg. permissions (full access granted), file blocked (no), file does not exist (it does), but nothing helps. I then tried installing a hidden object game that I was playing until yesterday with no problem but uninstalled when finished. I received exactly the same message when I tried to run it. There have been no changes at all to my system, no extra programs added except for the hidden object games. I have of course done a virus check with negative results. The only thing that I can think of is using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall the program. Is it possible that this could have caused the problem ? Can anyone help ? TIA Packard Bell iXtreme X6620 UK Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.5GHz 6 GBytes DDR2 RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2Gb RAM Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit MoBo Packard Bell EG43M Direct X 11 Apologies, should have expressed myself more clearly. I have no problems installing the program, just running the installed exe. -- remove fred before emailing |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:50:38 +0000, scbs29
wrote: On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:40:00 +0000, scbs29 wrote: Hello all and if not too late Merry Christmas. I have suddenly started receiving the message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. snip Apologies, should have expressed myself more clearly. I have no problems installing the program, just running the installed exe. Just tried to open screensaver properties and got the same message stating C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe -- remove fred before emailing |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
On 12/24/2017 5:40 AM, scbs29 scribbled: Hello all and if not too late Merry Christmas. I have suddenly started receiving the message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. When I install a program. I have tried all of the suggestions that I can find, eg. permissions (full access granted), file blocked (no), file does not exist (it does), but nothing helps. I then tried installing a hidden object game that I was playing until yesterday with no problem but uninstalled when finished. I received exactly the same message when I tried to run it. There have been no changes at all to my system, no extra programs added except for the hidden object games. I have of course done a virus check with negative results. The only thing that I can think of is using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall the program. Is it possible that this could have caused the problem ? Can anyone help ? TIA Packard Bell iXtreme X6620 UK Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.5GHz 6 GBytes DDR2 RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2Gb RAM Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit MoBo Packard Bell EG43M Direct X 11 user accounts. Are you the Administrator, you better check. go to control panel. user accounts family saftey then click user accounts. Then check your user account control settings. Because if the software, is not a windows software. We set ours to nill, so that MS bill gates, does not control us so much. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
scbs29 wrote:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:50:38 +0000, scbs29 wrote: On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:40:00 +0000, scbs29 wrote: Hello all and if not too late Merry Christmas. I have suddenly started receiving the message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. snip Apologies, should have expressed myself more clearly. I have no problems installing the program, just running the installed exe. Just tried to open screensaver properties and got the same message stating C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe The article here is only nibbling around the edges of the problem. I doubt you'll "get lucky" and one of the ideas here will work. It's actually pretty difficult to fix permission problems, because of the "inheritance" property (the permission problem can be coming from "above" where you're working). ""Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file" error when you try to install, update or start a program or file" https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/...ile-error-when ******* Here is an example, where the root cause was an install done with the "wrong" drive letter. Later, the drive letter is bumped out of the way at boot time, leading to mayhem. The individual here corrected that by editing MountVol registry entries. http://www.overclockers.com/forums/s...e-path-or-file I think you'd notice if the OS was no longer C: . And your quoted path above shows you're using C: so that's not it. ******* Here's another example. This is the kind of example Microsoft should be putting in their 2669244 article. I think these mechanisms are shared by the various OSes, so similar things should work on Windows 7. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...34ee775?auth=1 When I used "Admin Approval Mode" as a search term, this seems to apply to someone who is running in "God Mode". Someone who has enabled the Admin Account, and is running the machine as administrator ? Hmmmm. Are you being naughty perhaps ? And right before Christmas ? https://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...r-account.html Type whoami /user /priv or variants there-of, to "see who you really are". Open a regular Command Prompt window, and see what it inherits in terms of an account. On a "normal" setup, the regular Command Prompt has a "user" account ("Paul"), while the Administrator Command prompt will have the (useful) Impersonation privilege that comes from belonging to the administrators group. If you've been messing about, the result should be slightly different. The hosting site ruined my picture by reducing the resolution, but maybe you can make out the difference. The right-most pane is a regular user unelevated. The center pane is a regular user using an Administrator Command Prompt, where clicking yes on the UAC allows the Administrator Group privileges to be used. The left-most pane shows what happens when you enable the Built-In Administrator account, where you're "always Administrator". The left-most config hardly solves any problems, reduces your security *and* it's going to cause more foul-ups in the long run. http://s18.postimg.org/wowci9o95/whoami_user_priv.png The whoami command is not available on WinXP, but is available on later OSes, and when helping others, you can detect whether they've been naughty or not. People who insist on running their computers "like it's Windows 98", end up trying to use the built-in Administrator like a bludgeon (left pane). (And, such a practice, doesn't solve any problems.) Eventually, the practice catches up with you, and there will be "little surprises for you to solve". Am I getting warm ? Or way off the mark ? Paul |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 11:57:35 -0800, tesla sTinker
wrote: user accounts. Are you the Administrator, you better check. go to control panel. user accounts family saftey then click user accounts. Then check your user account control settings. Because if the software, is not a windows software. We set ours to nill, so that MS bill gates, does not control us so much. Thanks for your reply. Yes I am Administrator Check user account control settings, get same message, window title is C;|Windows\system32\UserAccountControlSettings.exe All of thse problems literally started after shutting down at night and switching on the following morning. -- remove fred before emailing |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
Set your software level to minimum in user account control settings. there is a link for it in user accounts. Set it to never notify. See if that helps. If not, do a malware clean up with No Virus Thanks. Download it, You may need to uninstall it the programs, then do the minimum guard on software programs, in the account settings. Then No Virus thanks it. For if windows thinks it is going to hurt itself, it will say that **** to you since it be third party software. IF its malware causing it, Windows does not let you use other peoples software. So you need to clean it out before you attempt to install it again. Malware can fly in the door whenever it wants, it may of even come from the software. If it did, you will find out after the scenario of removing it then reinstall. But leave the never notify in tact. That shuts out bill gates theft. He wants you to buy his software not other peoples. It should not claim that it cannot find it if it is where it is. And if none of this works, you can do a backup from your backup images. Just choose the older date on the other side of when you powered down and the problem started. It never erases emails, just programs when you restore. It may be malware, it may be microsoft. Your description to what is wrong, is not that well. On 12/27/2017 6:20 AM, scbs29 scribbled: On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 11:57:35 -0800, tesla sTinker wrote: user accounts. Are you the Administrator, you better check. go to control panel. user accounts family saftey then click user accounts. Then check your user account control settings. Because if the software, is not a windows software. We set ours to nill, so that MS bill gates, does not control us so much. Thanks for your reply. Yes I am Administrator Check user account control settings, get same message, window title is C;|Windows\system32\UserAccountControlSettings.exe All of thse problems literally started after shutting down at night and switching on the following morning. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Windows cannot access the specified....
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:40:00 +0000, scbs29
wrote: Hello all and if not too late Merry Christmas. I have suddenly started receiving the message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. When I install a program. I have tried all of the suggestions that I can find, eg. permissions (full access granted), file blocked (no), file does not exist (it does), but nothing helps. I then tried installing a hidden object game that I was playing until yesterday with no problem but uninstalled when finished. I received exactly the same message when I tried to run it. There have been no changes at all to my system, no extra programs added except for the hidden object games. I have of course done a virus check with negative results. The only thing that I can think of is using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall the program. Is it possible that this could have caused the problem ? Can anyone help ? TIA Packard Bell iXtreme X6620 UK Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.5GHz 6 GBytes DDR2 RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2Gb RAM Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit MoBo Packard Bell EG43M Direct X 11 Hello all and Happy New Year I have been doing some further digging into my permissions problem. New .exe on desktop. Double click I get the permissions message with the filename in the title bar. If, however, I copy the shortcut to Nexus dock and try running i9t it actually runs, with no permissions error. Double click or Open with on the following files leads to the permissions message. ..jpg ..zip - right click, extract to get message (Bandizip) ..jpg, .png, .psd ..ppp - file from Serif PagePlus ..dpp - file from Serif DrawPlus ..doc, .wmf, .tif ..avi These are OK ..txt ok, .epub, .pdf ..mp3, .mp4, .mkv, .mpg ok I then received the same message from Control Panel items, so I looked further (all resulted in permissions message with program name in title bar except where noted) change UAC Troubleshoot - Programs run programs made for previous verisons of windows hardware and sound - all of them network and internet - all appearance and personalization - all system and security - all open system restore - system restore cannot start system and security system allow remote access device manager Hardware and Sound - Devices and Printers, c:\Windows\system32\DevicePairingWizard.exe Add a printer - C:\Windows\system32\rundll.exe Mouse Device Manager Sound Adjust system volume - C:\Windows\system32\sndvol.exe Change system sounds - rundll32.exe Manage audio devices - explorer.exe NVIDIA Control Panel - Explorer.exe Realtek HD Audio Manager - Control panel Programs and Features Turn Wndows features on or off - system32\OptionalFeatures.exe Run programs made for previous versions of Windows - msdt.exe Windows cardspace - explorer.exe Appearance and Personalisation Personalisation Window color - rundll32.exe Sounds - system32\control.exe Screen saver - rundll32.exe Taskbar and start menu - Customize the start menu - rundll32.exe Folder options Specify single or double click to open - Explorer.exe Show hidden files and folders Fonts Adjust ClearType text - cttune.exe Clock, Language and Region - all rundll32.exe Ease of Access Start speech recognitioin - C;|Windows\speech\common\sapisvr.exe Set up a microphone - rundll32.exe All Administrative tools Can anyone help ? -- remove fred before emailing |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | Rate This Thread |
|
|