this video is going to be on how to
unlock a folder in Windows 7 and it
might work in Windows 8 Windows 10 who
knows
so I'm sitting here looking at my
computer and I'd get a lot folder that
is new I could might be able to get rid
of it by rebooting and I probably should
reboot to see if that fixes it but my
music folder is locked my pictures are
locked in my video is locked now I'm
going to click on this and we're gonna
get a message access is denied I'm gonna
click on my videos over here I don't
know if this is gonna take me in okay so
that's unusual but I can no longer get
to my videos now and I have my music I
can't get to my music and my music over
here access denied
so obviously something went wrong here
with the sharing and again it might be a
reboot problem I could maybe go back and
do a recovery but let's see if we can
get this working yeah I really don't
know why it's locked but because this is
locked this is now locked so let's go
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I'm awesome so what we have here is this
folder with this lock over here and I'm
going to take the mouse so I'm going to
right-click it and I'm gonna go all the
way down to the bottom where it says
properties and left click it and we come
up with this box over here so let's zoom
in I don't know if this is going to fix
it but we're gonna try so that is the
box I'm going to go over to security and
I'm gonna left click security and I
should now because I'm an administrator
I should be able to have access to all
of this should only be blocking people
that dealt that are not administrators
but that is not the case here so what
I'm gonna do is I'm going to click on
the edit button over here left click on
the edit button and I should have
something in this box that says users it
should also let administrator do this
but I don't know why it's not letting me
do this and there is the name that's my
account name name is the PC
administrator so I'm going to click Add
left click Add and we come up with a box
now there are two things you can type in
this box you can type in users or you
can also try to type in authenticated
users so I'm going to type in users and
we're gonna see what comes up if this
works users and then I'm gonna go click
over here check names now I believe
doing authenticated users might do the
same thing I don't know what we're gonna
click check names and we've got named PC
users and now remember I think we're
doing this on the music over here so
this should disappear this over here
let's see what happens I still don't
know if I'm gonna have access to
anything
I'm going to click apply an error
occurred access is denied this is not
good
okay so let's go back in and type users
again and okay we've got users and now I
want to give users I should have read
and execute lists and control read I
should have access to all of this stuff
readwrite I should have full control
let's try full control for users and see
what we end up getting it doesn't want
me in there that's very interesting
that should work let's go over to here
to my music now if it doesn't work for
you then you've got the exact same
problem that I have
I've got named users I want to click an
administrator administrator has full
access to everything very interesting
and this name account has access to
everything and let's go over to this
thing now the properties security name
let's click on name let's click on ok so
the name that I just added has full
access to everything an administrator
has full access to everything
interesting but we're gonna go over to
pictures the lock folder and we're gonna
move that over here secure take' I'm
missing the users thing over here
very interesting administrator has
absolutely no access to anything and
that is not right so what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to give the administrator
full access to everything and we're
gonna see if that goes away an error
occurred user public documents my access
denied
wondering if my PC was taken over did
somebody steal my did somebody take
control of my computer okay well what I
just showed you should work you should
be able to get full access to all of
this I have zero access to any of my
documents right now so but that is the
way to do it I'm gonna do a reboot and
if everything clears up I'll let you
know if it doesn't clear up I will let
you know what I did but that is the way
to get access back to locked folders
after a reboot you can see that the
locked folder under my music is gone and
the lock folder on my pictures and my
video is still there yet even though the
locked folder is gone I have no access
to my music and my music I don't know
why I still have access to my files
where I saved them under a under
download I saved them under down low but
I never saved them under my music my
pictures in my video so I was able to
get rid of the locked folder but I am
not able to access anything yet and I
don't really know why so let's try one
last thing before I turn this off and
just give up on it we're gonna go back
to properties and we're gonna go to
secure take' and we've got the name user
in there permissions for everyone we
don't want permissions for everyone we
do want permissions it shows that our
name user has all access and
administrator has all access and system
has all access and everyone only has
special permissions pretty interesting
now let's go over to the other folder
we'll click on here and we'll see what's
going on with this one security everyone
should only have special permissions
special permissions system should have
[Music]
system has nothing administrator has
special permissions so what I'm gonna do
I'm going to go do the other thing that
I just did before I'm going to edit I'm
gonna add when I go into users now I'm
gonna try two ways to do this I'm going
to type in authenticated users and I'm
just gonna click OK
we've got authenticated users over there
I have absolutely no idea what that
means and I'm also gonna type in users
and do the check names and that's the
one that I want and then I want ok so
I've got that so let's go see what we
have here
that's that we've got read execute
limited and authenticated has the same
thing and now what am I doing this on my
video so let's do apply access denied
continue access denied cancel so we're
gonna cancel out of that it does not
want me to do it on that one let's try
it on this one that's populated the the
user name over there that I just did and
let's do one last one here let's do an
ADD and let's do authenticated users
again and we'll pop that in there and
we'll apply and access is denied it
really does not want me to have access
to this authenticated users let's see if
we can give them full control no it
doesn't want that either
so we'll take full control away
everyone now system now this great
airflow control let me name it okay so
I'm not a hundred percent sure but I'm
guessing yeah I stopped it in the middle
let's do one last thing here I can't I
can't do the sharing thing up there
because it doesn't allow any shared
folder start synchronizing normally
you'd be able to do a share but you
can't even do that so now my video no
access
I have zero access to any of these
folders and again it could be because
somehow I modified this but I do want to
show you one last thing that if you look
over here we have libraries and if I
click on any of the libraries my
documents show up my music shows up my
pictures show up in my video shows up so
if I click on any of the libraries my
documents show up my music shows up the
pictures show up the video shows up so
whatever is going on in these lot
folders I don't know but my files are
still there and I just don't have access
to them through these folders here so at
least the video shows you how to unlock
how to get rid of that I'm going to do
that one more time on my pictures let's
do property let's do secure take' let's
do at it let's do ad I think they saved
the authenticated user and the clipboard
okay
I did I'll click OK the dog is gonna
bark in a minute and I want to also do
ad and I want to do you ask
or s us er s and I'm gonna do check name
okay so now we have that we have
authenticated users I want to give them
full control and user name I want to
give full control I don't think any of
its gonna work no it's not gonna work
access denied continue continue
okay but when I do a reboot that is
gonna be gone so it just depends on if
this was set if this machine was set up
normally the right way I wouldn't be
having this problem but this machine was
a Windows XP to a Windows 7 conversion
so there are lots of problems with the
permissions on the folders but when I go
over like I said to libraries everything
is good because if you look right here
when I started the video my music had a
locked folder that is gone my pictures
had a blocked folder I need to reboot or
maybe close this out and open it up my
video had a locked icon and it is gone
and all I did is I closed out the folder
after I turned off the camera and went
to my pictures and then I closed off the
folder open to backup so all of the
locks are gone
but there is just nothing in there
because it's completely locked from the
Windows XP Windows 7 conversion but
that's how you unlock a folder make sure
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