Solution to Windows 7 with the prompt "Windows cannot access the specified device path or file"

Solution to Windows 7 with the prompt "Windows cannot access the specified device path or file"

When you click the desktop icon in Windows, the system prompts "Windows cannot access the specified device path or file, and you may not have the proper permission to access the file ". This is because your C drive is in NTFS format. In this case, you only need to set administrator permissions for your account. The following describes the specific solutions.

The procedure is as follows:

1. Open the properties of drive C, go to the "Security" page, click "add", select the account you want to modify, and click "OK". Then, log on to the Win7 system with the selected account;

2. Use anti-virus software for a drive C scan. You can also download a dedicated Repair Tool to fix it;

3. disable anti-virus software and firewall in the system and try again to enable the software.

If the problem persists, try the following methods:

1. Open the attributes of the partition where the software is located, go to the security page, select the account of "Administrator", and change all options of "Administrator permission" to allow;

2. On the Security page, click "advanced options" to go to the "select user or group" window, use "Search now", select the Administrator account, and change all options to "allow;

3. Open the properties of the partition disk where the software is located, go to the security page, and open the current Administrator Account in "group or user name, open "advanced" "owner" "current project owner" in turn and you will see a "S-1-5-21-147001333-1580818891-1708537768-500" string; click the username under the 'name, select "Replace sub-container and object owner" and then confirm to exit. After a while, you can open the program you want to open.

The solution to "Windows cannot access the specified device path or file" is described in Win7. If you encounter a similar problem, you can use the following method to obtain the permission to open a program or file.