I have a Windows XP computer, and experienced a hard-freeze of my computer (keyboard/mouse not responsive) and was forced to re-boot my PC.
Now I'm running into an issue attempting to access or delete a particular directory on my machine, C:\Common\BuildArtifacts\ – I receive an "Access is Denied" error from Windows
Things I've tried:
- I've tried making the folder writeable by going to properties -> de-select read-only
- I found that under the folder properties, no "security" tab exists.
- I've tried deleting the file thru windows explorer, shift deleting the file, and doing an "rmdir" under a commandline for the BuildArtifacts directory.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to resolve this error?
The only thing I can think of doing next is going into safe mode, and I'm not even sure if that will help.
Best Answer
Try accessing the account as the system user and seeing if there are security settings as the system user. If so, change the security settings. If you need help accessing the system account (not the admin account), let me know.
UPDATE: Requested information on accessing the System Account in Windows XP was found here. (does not work on Windows 7) BE CAREFUL WHILE IN THE SYSTEM ACCOUNT!!!