How to access "Documents & Settings" ?

[davegmail]

How to access "Documents & Settings" ?

I want to add a program into Startup. I get a rejection on my own Vista, Toshiba notebook as the admin user. How exactly do I do this? I tried right clicking on Explorer.exe & running as administrator.

Error message: "c:\Documents & Settings is not accessible. Access is denied."

Thanks, Dave Y

 

[smah]

The Vista user folder structure has changed somewhat. In most cases, C:\Users is equivalent to the xp C:\Documents and Settings. However, this is not true for the 'all users' items (desktop, startup, etc).

Because of these path changes, you're much better off using the environment variables rather than the actual path. For example cd %HOMEPATH% from a command propmt will take you directly to the logged in user's 'home' folder. For a list of these environment variables, open a command prompt & type set /?

After all that, if you're actually looking for the 'all users' startup folder, you'll find it at:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

 

[wolluf]

You may need to change permissions to be able to add program to startup folder. Vista also has more restrictive permissions in place, especially on the profiles folders. Like the fact you're a member of administrators group probably not enough, you may have to add your own user name explicitly to the appropriate folder(s).

 

[linney]

By way of the Accessed Denied message and explanation, I received this comment from Microsoft,

"The junctions are there to only provide appcompat for legacy apps and aren’t meant for a user to traverse through. The junctions have been explicitly set to block read through them by setting Everyone Deny Read. The main reason here is because these are just links to the actual location, so you dont want backup tools and other tools operating on your data twice, once from the original path and once via the junctions. There are scenarios where some of these junctions actually form a loop to support the appcompat for the old namespace in comparison to the new and in those cases allowing read through them is disastrous, for e.g. setup was broken for a week when the file system wasnt honorign the deny read.

Also as far as a user goes, you will never see these as they are system hidden, and you will need to take explicit action to see them by default."

UAC, network share, and All Users starup folder
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