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I have a basic W7/home premium system and want to use file explorer to
browse Documents and Settings for my user id. When I click on it I get
"access is denied". I'm using the user id that was created during
system setup.

I don't see anything that would let me run with elevated privilages.

What should I be doing?

Thanks
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"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
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> I have a basic W7/home premium system and want to use file explorer to
> browse Documents and Settings for my user id. When I click on it I get
> "access is denied". I'm using the user id that was created during
> system setup.
>
> I don't see anything that would let me run with elevated privilages.
>
> What should I be doing?
>
> Thanks

In Win 7, that's not an actual directory. It's just a fake name
to placate programs that are looking for that specific name.
All the data that used to be in there in earlier OSes is now
in Users.

Tom Lake

"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
news:i0jc6q$8ti$1@panix1.panix.com...
> I have a basic W7/home premium system and want to use file explorer to
> browse Documents and Settings for my user id. When I click on it I get
> "access is denied". I'm using the user id that was created during
> system setup.
>
> I don't see anything that would let me run with elevated privilages.
>
> What should I be doing?

\Documents and Settings no longer exists. What you are seeing is a "Junction
Point". It is there to transparently point legacy applications in the right
direction.

What you want now is under \Users.