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Old December 24th 17, 02:40 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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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

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Old December 24th 17, 02:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default 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.

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Old December 24th 17, 05:07 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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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



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Old December 24th 17, 08:57 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
tesla sTinker
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Default 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.
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Old December 24th 17, 09:39 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default 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
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Old December 27th 17, 03:20 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
scbs29[_2_]
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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.

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Old December 30th 17, 01:00 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
tesla sTinker
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Default 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.

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Old December 31st 17, 04:02 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
scbs29[_2_]
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Default 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 ?


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