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Windows Vista problem I get this alert "windows cannot access the specified device path or file,....?

You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item etc

so far it only seems to be anything running in Internet Explorer. Started after I recieved updates from windows and Java. any ideas how to fix?

Update:

I tried run as administrator which i am and sign in as, This is a new computer, so no other user has been asigned to that program, but I still get the warning, I installed a optimizer to fix any Reg problem it still does that.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Hi

    you need to transfer the document ownership to the new user ,

    as a start try to right click the folder and choose properties , then security tab , then advanced , the owner and try to change the owner.

    Best Answer before for same problem

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sounds like a user account issue, you just need to go to control panel and find user accounts, after below there is a an option manage "UAC" which stands for user account control, disable uac restart, if that won't help then you need to go user accounts again and make yourself as administrator of pc hopefully that will solve the problem. Cheers!

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Assuming permissions isn't your situation, I ran throughout the time of somewhat bit malware those days that deleted some equipment environment variables and led to direction errors such as you pronounced. The hyperlinks below are a itemizing of our environment variables and the thank you to edit them in XP. See what's lacking/changed and edit subsequently.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Right click internet explorer and click " Run as admin" i hope this helps

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