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Several applications cannot run in an Administrator account because they do not have permission to create files in the %APPDATA%
folder.
Background:
- Running 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium Edition on a family computer.
- We have one normal account,
Family
, which has been running as administrator and without a password. - I suffered a virus infection on the computer and made several changes, including a
system restore, changing the account type of the normal family
account to a standard user and assigning a password. The infection is
solved, but I have been left in a state where several applications
cannot run in the Family account because they do not have permission
to create files in the
%APPDATA%
folder.
Symptoms include:
- Some applications (Chrome, Office) work properly with no problems.
- Some applications (eg Civilization III) give an
Access is Denied
error trying to create a file inc:\Users\Family\AppData\Local\Temp
. the same applies even when I choose toRun as Administrator
- Firefox gives a
Firefox is already running
error, which investigation suggests is really a permissions problem (Task Manager assures me it's definitely not already running).
Attempts to solve the problem:
- Changed the Family privileges back to administrator and removed the password. No luck.
- Ensured that the Family user has full control over the %APPDATA% folder.
Current state:
- Stuck. Frustrated.
Thanks Luke. I tried the new account approach, although copying user files left me with some problems. In the end, I re-installed the major applications that were not functioning. The SFC command is not something I knew of before - thanks for that.
I suspect that as a result of my previous attempts I was seeing two separate problems (at least). Thunderbird, for example, was failing to start for one reason (presence of a parent.lock file) while an old game (Civ III) was failing because it is not permissions-aware enough for Windows 7. Thanks for the response. – Tom Slee – 2012-07-12T13:29:41.123