I was playing around with user accounts last night in order to move my Users folder to a different hard drive, in the end I ended up just moving the Appdata\Local folder. However when I logged in this morning I can no longer access windows explorer, the control panel, or my computer (and probably a lot of other things).
When trying to access explorer I get an Explorer.exe error (Windows cannot access the specificed device, path, or file.
You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item), I get the same error when trying to access Computer and the Control Panel (the message is the same with Control Panel but the error is {26EE068-A00A-9371-BEB064C98683})
I have tried edited permissions through c:\windows\registration and noticed that the Current Owner is set to Administrators (John-PC\Administrators) rather than the account i'm logged into John (John-PC\John), I tried taking ownership but still had the same problems.
And when I try to apply changes to some of the permissions i get another error 'Error Applying Security. An error occurred while applying security information to: c:\windows\registration\CRMlog'
I can't create a new account as I get the same Explorer.exe error.
I tried doing a system restore but get an error when i try that, 'System Restore does not appear to be functioning correctly on this system. A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error', although system restore worked last night.
At this point I'm beginning to think that a format and re-install is probably the easiest thing although i'd obviously like to avoid that if possible.
Any help you can give would be much appreciated.
When trying to access explorer I get an Explorer.exe error (Windows cannot access the specificed device, path, or file.
You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item), I get the same error when trying to access Computer and the Control Panel (the message is the same with Control Panel but the error is {26EE068-A00A-9371-BEB064C98683})
I have tried edited permissions through c:\windows\registration and noticed that the Current Owner is set to Administrators (John-PC\Administrators) rather than the account i'm logged into John (John-PC\John), I tried taking ownership but still had the same problems.
And when I try to apply changes to some of the permissions i get another error 'Error Applying Security. An error occurred while applying security information to: c:\windows\registration\CRMlog'
I can't create a new account as I get the same Explorer.exe error.
I tried doing a system restore but get an error when i try that, 'System Restore does not appear to be functioning correctly on this system. A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error', although system restore worked last night.
At this point I'm beginning to think that a format and re-install is probably the easiest thing although i'd obviously like to avoid that if possible.
Any help you can give would be much appreciated.
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