Comments on: How To Override “Access Denied” and “Sharing Violation” Roadblocks

by: Atlanta

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:07:15 +0000

I went to several web sites that gave ways to delete folders that were locked, and I also used “Unlocker” but it did not work for me. I even tried it from Windows Safe Mode.
I did finely delete the directory with a program called ” Trojan Remover version 6.6.7″ after running the program to make sure there were no trojans on my computer, I went to => File => Scan File/Directory => Highlighted the directory I wanted to delete => [Right clicked] and selected [Delete].
It worked.
~ Atlanta

by: Gaurav

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:25:55 +0000

I just want to express my sincere thanks to Chappers…you seriously saved me there…i had deleted an old account on my xp computer but it kept all its files for some reason and was eating up my hard drive space…thanks to your technique i was able to get to the files and remove them..thanks again!

by: rusty

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:08:57 +0000

i have a virus or something that has changed the administrator settings and i can’t get around it. it had locked out my control panel and task manager (and probably other things i don’t know about yet). i keep trying all kinds of different things to access the administrator and change things but nothing works. any suggestions?

by: Jimbo

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:55:19 +0000

Thanks again to Chappers!!! His advice led me in the right direction… it didn’t work straight away but after messing with a few options in that security tab in the properties window it worked!! You rock!

by: Olly

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:28:15 +0000

Hi i had to use a sytem restore disc the other day to restart my comuter because it crashed and i asked it to keep my documents.
the problem is the was one folder that was marked to be only read by me and now i’ve got a new account i can’t open it

by: rb

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:42:24 +0000

Using laptop unable to set up any mail programs, i.e. yahoo, hotmail, gmail. Can’t get into logmein.com. Checked all security settings, firewall settings, etc. All identical to desktop. Using Netscape or IE, still get “Cannot display web page” Unable to open existing yahoo email accounts. Totally stumped. Any help greatfully appreciated. Need to access files at a trade show and dead in the water.

Thanks.

by: dkew

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:30:21 +0000

Several hours later: the suggestions above don’t work. The vague DIY ones lead to non-existent options in my Win XP SP2 folders. XPhometools installs, then can’t be found. WhoLockMe either does nothing, or finds nothing to comment on. Unlocker doesn’t unlock anything, nor does Danjou’s Locked Files Wizard. Files that are supposed to move on reboot don’t. The problem files cannot be opened by Administrator in Safe Mode either.

by: dkew

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:59:30 +0000

My problem is similar to above ones, except that I really want to open the “denied access” files. I have some hundreds of PDF, Mp3, and jpg files that can’t be opened, renamed, moved (or deleted.) Suggestions?

by: Marko

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:52:02 +0000

problem solved…..Use TuneUp Shredder to delete access denied stuff..they will be gone forever….GOOD LUCK

by: voidmatters

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:31:02 +0000

I have something new for all of you.

I can access all folders and files (e.g. in win explorer), however when I create a link to ANY folder and then “double click” it to open that folder, I get an “access denied” message (or its german equivalent: “Zugriff verweigert”). That goes as far as not being able to use “open” in folders of the context menu of the win start menu or other programs not being able to do certain things that require folder links.

I am running xp home on fat32 drives (so there should be no user rights for me?!?) with the “my documents” folder in a subdir of a partition that is not my system partition.

Anyone have an idea of what is going on or how to FIX this? I actually managed to live with that for a while now, but it totally sucks, because linking is vital! Thanks for any suggestions…