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General Computer Support / I get "Access Denied" everywhere after upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10
« on: June 03, 2016, 12:14:00 am »
Hi
My Windows 7 was working perfect and has been for years and I was really not in the mood for upgrading to Windows 10. What if something goes wrong? Can I be sure that all my programs and all the personal settings that I have made to those will work? I could not handle to spend weeks setting all this up again to fit my personal settings and daily work.
Then 2 weeks ago my computer started telling me that I had 15 minutes, before it would upgrade to Windows 10. I postponed that for 8 hours and letting the auto-upgrade know that I needed more time. I did that many times for weeks. Then the other day I totally forgot about it when I was sitting in the garden and enjoying the sun. When I came back in my computer was in the middle of an upgrade! Oh, no!!!
And my worst fears came true! My Windows profile is a total mess! I get “Access Denied†everywhere. My Skype won’t logon, I can’t open Word and write a document, my Outlook .ost file is not readable, my Internet Explorer is not working perfect.
I found out that it’s my Windows Profile and lost ownership of folders and wrong access rights, especially on \users\myuser\AppData\ folder. I have searched the Internet for all kind of solutions, nothing works. I found this and tried all the solutions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3g42rn/updated_to_windows_10_now_im_getting_access/
Then I remember! Some 4 years ago you saved my day. Your repair tool fixed my computer in 5 minutes after spending hours with other solutions.
So, I have tried to run the Repair Tool and tried fixing the ownership and access rights on my folders. But it does not work – I’m sorry.
From the Internet I can see, that some people think it’s OneDrive that has messed up the rights. I was getting a lot of “OneDrive could not start, due to an other process is already runningâ€. And it’s really hard to get rid of OneDrive in Windows 10 and when coming from Windows 7 with original Groove.exe and later OneDrive for Business, it could be that this totally messed it up.
Bottom line:
I lost ownership and full access to folders inside \users\myuser\ including AppData
It shows an unknown user: ? S-1-5-21-6464646….
I had hoped that the Repair Tool could fix it, but I had no luck.
Any suggestions, other than making a new profile and start all over.
Best regards,
Henrik
My Windows 7 was working perfect and has been for years and I was really not in the mood for upgrading to Windows 10. What if something goes wrong? Can I be sure that all my programs and all the personal settings that I have made to those will work? I could not handle to spend weeks setting all this up again to fit my personal settings and daily work.
Then 2 weeks ago my computer started telling me that I had 15 minutes, before it would upgrade to Windows 10. I postponed that for 8 hours and letting the auto-upgrade know that I needed more time. I did that many times for weeks. Then the other day I totally forgot about it when I was sitting in the garden and enjoying the sun. When I came back in my computer was in the middle of an upgrade! Oh, no!!!
And my worst fears came true! My Windows profile is a total mess! I get “Access Denied†everywhere. My Skype won’t logon, I can’t open Word and write a document, my Outlook .ost file is not readable, my Internet Explorer is not working perfect.
I found out that it’s my Windows Profile and lost ownership of folders and wrong access rights, especially on \users\myuser\AppData\ folder. I have searched the Internet for all kind of solutions, nothing works. I found this and tried all the solutions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3g42rn/updated_to_windows_10_now_im_getting_access/
Then I remember! Some 4 years ago you saved my day. Your repair tool fixed my computer in 5 minutes after spending hours with other solutions.
So, I have tried to run the Repair Tool and tried fixing the ownership and access rights on my folders. But it does not work – I’m sorry.
From the Internet I can see, that some people think it’s OneDrive that has messed up the rights. I was getting a lot of “OneDrive could not start, due to an other process is already runningâ€. And it’s really hard to get rid of OneDrive in Windows 10 and when coming from Windows 7 with original Groove.exe and later OneDrive for Business, it could be that this totally messed it up.
Bottom line:
I lost ownership and full access to folders inside \users\myuser\ including AppData
It shows an unknown user: ? S-1-5-21-6464646….
I had hoped that the Repair Tool could fix it, but I had no luck.
Any suggestions, other than making a new profile and start all over.
Best regards,
Henrik