Hello community, I have been getting problems with my PC for 5 months. First, my PC's booting was taking ages. Solved by running a chkdsk/r. After that, I couldn't open my documents and etc, PC went to service and techs changed it's HDD. Everything was working OK until I've tried to open one of my folder in my external HDD. That folder is pretty important because all of my works, programs and games are in that folder. Whenever I double-click to open, it says "You dont currently have permission to access this folder. Click continue to permanently get access to this folder.". If I click continue, nothing happens, just green bar goes on and on for a long time, but nothing happens. Before this problem, action center told me to backup my files. Norton 360 5.0 was in command on backups, I just wanted to see how W7 will backup, maybe it's Windows folders. I've set everything and clicked 'save and start backup', backup started, but it gave an error at %25, saying 'unable to backup'. It aborted itself, process was finished but, action center still got the 'backup icon'. I've restarted my PC to see if this indicates a problem, that icon was still there after reboot. I thought it wouldn't be a that much problem, surfed on internet and it disappeared. Then, I wanted to see my essay's final shape, tried to open my folder, bam; unable to access. I also have little lock symbols in few folders and files inside those folders, what does those locks mean and how can I remove them? I hope I didn't screw anything up, and this problem has a solution. Many many thanks from now on. P.S.: Nothing has changed, I've just installed BF2 earlier in the morning, but this problem shows up evening. I don't think it's releated to that installation. I also installed new drivers for ATI GPU, and I remember I was able to access that folder after these. Also, my account is administrator.

Hi, Try to take ownership for test: Take ownership of folders ==================== 1. Open My Computer and open the C drive. 2. Enter Windows folder, find out and right click on inf folder and choose Properties. 3. Choose the "Security" tab and see if "Administrators" is listed in the "Group and User" name list. If not, please click the Add button and type "Administrators" in the open window and click "OK" to add this group. 4. Highlight "Administrators" and check "Full Control" under "Accept". 5. Click the "Advanced" button and choose the "Owner" tab. 6. Highlight the "Administrators" user group in the list and mark the check box before "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects". 7. Click "OK" to save changes and wait for Windows 7 to transfer ownership of all the objects on the partition. 8. Click OK again to save changes and exit the Properties window. Hope it helps. Regards, Leo HuangLeo Huang TechNet Community Support

Hello Leo Huang, I've tried to get the ownership of my folder, it failed on first try because I only gave full control to administrators. I've written Administrators to owner, and it worked. It looks like the problem has solved. About your solution, I can't check anything. I've clicked 'edit' button under "Group and User" name list, Administrators were written, highlighted it, tried to check things but I can't click on anything. Check-list is grayed out. However, problem is solved at the moment, and thank you sir for investing time. Regards.