Allusersprofile application data windows 7 access denied

You need to ask MS - maybe Raymond Chen could help, but I suspect he'd give you the same advice - you may well find out, but it will not be reliable :- — paxdiablo. I had already put forward the question through MSDN and am still awaiting reply : — sangupta. Hemant Hemant Thanks for the sheet. But, I am looking for documentation as to how Windows decide where to map these folders to, upon installation. The entries you have made are already as in the registry settings see previous answer.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Click advanced 4. Click the owner tab 5. Click edit 6. Highlight your user name and check the replace owner on subcontainers and objects checkbox, click apply then ok. Then press ok on all of the other windows to exit out of them. Click start, type on the search "explorer"..

Application Data is not an actual folder, it is a Junction which is only there for backward compatibility. Thank you. I guess that would make sense if it did not need to be decompressed every time.

It's a useless "feature" better used in Windows 98 with a 2 GB hard drive. As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts S. Driver problem 3 Viewers Latest: Sreedharsh 17 minutes ago. M 21 minutes ago. PC Freezes once per days Latest: Macboatmaster 22 minutes ago.

Tech-Related News. Latest: Xylop Today at AM. Windows 7. M Today at AM. Staff online. Drabdr Moderator. Total: members: 7, guests: This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. Accept Learn more…. Also, if you are looking to use it in a batch file or a script, you definitely want to make use of the environment variable. In Win7 you have to check the other two there is another environment variable for the Local Application Data path as well.

This is my problem, exactly. The answer has to be something global on my Win7 configuration. I have done everything above. I can see all hidden and system folders. Many of the default folders that were present in Windows XP have had name changes starting with Windows Vista. They are there for compatibility with older programs that are hard coded to look for those old folder names when the older program is installed.

Here is what they look like. These folders have special properties that will redirect the old installer program to the new location in Windows 7.

This allows the older program to install and work in Windows 7, seamlessly. This folder was used in previous versions XP to hold all of the users files. There are many of these Junctions in Windows 7. Windows has supported the use of Junctions for a long time, but they were not used extensively until Windows Vista.

It is recommended that the user does not change any of the properties of these folders, since doing so can cause some installed programs to stop working or other behavior that can result in more serious problems.

Here is a link with more information. Application Compatibility: Junction Points. Thank you. I understand the rationale, and do appreciate that Windows 7 does such a good job with my XP programs. I know you have gone over this before, but this reply makes sense to me. You're not understanding the way these Junctions work. When an older program is installed that is hard coded to use the old windows folder names, the junctions are designed to automatically redirect the install program to the new folder location.

Once this process is complete, that location is recorded as the location for the programs data store. If a Junctions permissions are changed, this can be problematic because the older installation program may be able to actually access walk through the Junction and this can result in unexpected behavior, such as a recursion infinite loop.

So if a program was allowed to keep following subdirectories and treated that junction like a subdirectory, it would get in an infinite loop.

Sometimes I get bitten in the butt by this. For example, I can't run altiris rapidinstall as administrator without getting into a loop plus it's only 32 bit. I don't know how it ended in that foIder.

Can you please explain how my file ended in that directory and how can I restore it? I tried to double click to open the file but to no avail, this message appears: "The drive or network connection that the shortcut xxxxxxxxx refers to is unailable Oddly enough, I just ran into the same problem today trying to get custom Adobe Acrobat portfolio files.

I found this thread very interesting to read; however, I took a different approach before discovering this thread. I used a virtual DOS box cmd tp find the Applications Directory I needed and then used a command line "copy" to copy the files.

This seems to make the most sense onthis thread, in particular to my question, but in the end, all the code and "back end" stuff is foreign to me. My bottom line question is related though. I need to access my pst files to move outlook from one box to another.

I've done it before with no problem, but the path indicated in outlook takes me through the app data folder. This is where I cant continue, and am stumped. Can you explain how to get there safely? I would recommend posting this question on the MSOffice Answers forum. Go to the following forums. At the top of the page, select the Ask a question item, enter the question title and click the Ask Button. In the Compose window, be sure to select the proper options for the versions you are using at the bottom of the window.