{"id":864,"date":"2014-02-12T06:46:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2017-04-28T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T02:57:01","slug":"access-denied-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/access-denied-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Access Denied in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of people, I have found the security setting in Windows 7 incredibly frustrating. For example, I copied a lot of my data across to an external HDD to free up disk space and was always being told I had no permission to do anything with the files after that move. Each time I wanted to do something I had to go through the change ownership tedium each time.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of posts abound about how to fix it but nothing worked \u2013 and I got nervous about downloading fix files and changing host files.<\/p>\n<p>Then I learned one little trick in this post that made life a lot easier \u2013 tick the box that starts \u201creplace\u201d in the bottom left corner of the final screen. By doing that. you have permission for the entire folder. I kept changing permission for the folder to delete an old hotfixinstaller folder but it would<!--more--> never let me delete the thing \u2026 until I changed ownership for all the contents in the folder. Yee-haahh!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/window-on-windows\/quick-tip-take-ownership-of-files-and-folders-in-windows\/3688\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/window-on-windows\/quick-tip-take-ownership-of-files-and-folders-in-windows\/3688\">http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/window-on-windows\/quick-tip-take-ownership-of-files-and-folders-in-windows\/3688<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/win7-permission-denied.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"win7-permission-denied\" alt=\"win7-permission-denied\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/win7-permission-denied_thumb.png?resize=540%2C411\" width=\"540\" height=\"411\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you Mark Kaelin and techrepublic.com!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only I could find the way to stop this happening when I create files and folders in future\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of people, I have found the security setting in Windows 7 incredibly frustrating. For example, I copied a lot of my data across to an external HDD to free up disk space and was always being told I had no permission to do anything with the files after that move. Each time&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/access-denied-in-windows-7\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Access Denied in Windows 7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,43],"tags":[210,209,208],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-service","category-tools","tag-get-admin-access-win-7","tag-permission-denied","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-dW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}