Yesterday, because of the cause of the virus reload XP, but after the reload found that "My Documents" in some files can not open, the old prompt refused access. XP was originally installed in C, and "My Documents" in the original XP system is adjusted to the D disk of a folder, the purpose is to avoid the reload system when the backup forgot, the contents of my document format. Remember that in the unit with the computer also encountered a similar situation, but there is no important documents, there is no way to solve the problem. The situation is different now, there are a lot of important documents, and the file was set to private, which may be the cause of "access denied." Looking at it, it was not just some of the files in My Documents, but some of the folders that were previously private are denied access, and are inferred for the same reason.
Is it possible to access a new user with the same name? It's not going to work, because in XP, each user has a unique SID.
So a search on the internet, there are many friends have encountered this problem, but also have a lot of enthusiastic friends to provide a variety of solutions. After reference to each hero to provide the ace, and after practice, finally summed up a solution to this kind of problem, sent here to all of you, hope to encounter similar problems friends helpful.
For less gossip, here are some specific solutions.
1. Login to XP with Administrator privileges, open Explorer in XP, select Menu Tools | Folder Options, and Open the Folder Options dialog box. Click the View tab in the dialog box to cancel the check box "use simple sharing." Figure 1 Cancel "Use simple sharing" 2, right-click a folder that was originally set to be private, such as "I386-SP2", select "Properties" from the pop-up menu, and you will see one more Security tab in the dialog box. You can see that there is an unknown account here, this should be the original XP system of the account bar. This account is accessible to this folder, but the problem is that we are now unable to use this account. So we have to find another way.
Figure 2 Security tab
3, click the "Advanced" button in the dialog box shown in Figure 2, pop-up the "Advanced Security Settings for I386-sp2" dialog box to display the current owner of the project for the unknown account you just saw. Select the user under Change owner to, such as the user name that I am using now, and then click the Apply button, and the owner will change to the current user, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 3 Changing the owner of a folder
With the Replace child container and owner of object selected below, click the Apply button to see a process that takes ownership of all the files and folders in the folder.
4. Click the Permissions tab in the dialog box above and click the Add button, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4
Then click the Advanced button in the Select User or Group dialog box, and then click the Find Now button to list the users or groups on this computer below. Select the user you want to give permission to. Figure 5 Select User 5 and click the OK button two consecutive times until the I386-SP2 Permission Entry dialog box appears. Select the Allow check box on the right side of full control in permissions, and you will gain control over the folder. Click the OK button.
Figure 6 Changing permissions
6, click OK until all dialog boxes are closed. This way, the existing private folder can be accessed using the current user. If you also encounter problems with files or folders that cannot be opened, try changing their read-only properties, or modify effective permissions in the dialog box shown in Figure 4. For individual files that are still open, you can try to modify their permissions individually.
Summary: The reason why some files or folders cannot be accessed after reloading XP, is primarily to set access rights or encrypt files or folders before reloading. The workaround for this article is to log on as an administrator and then modify the access rights of these files or folders so that the current user can fully control them. Finish Computer Basics Tutorial Network）
