"Access Denied" to My Videos, My Pictures, My Music

[Uncoordinated]

So I upgraded my new laptop to Windows 10 and it says "Access Denied" when I try to click on any of the folders in the title in my Documents folder? I just had a trojan virus, which I think is gone?(I ran Malwarebytes, which removed 80 things and McAfee stopped warning me) So I'm hoping that doesn't have to do with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[HEXiT]

SET DIRECTORY_NAME="c:*.*"
TAKEOWN /f %DIRECTORY_NAME% /r /d y
ICACLS %DIRECTORY_NAME% /grant administrators:F /t
PAUSE

create a .bat file from the above.
run it with admin privs

if you want to take ownership of more drives just change the dirve letter in the script.

 

[Sabreur]

SET DIRECTORY_NAME="c:*.*"
TAKEOWN /f %DIRECTORY_NAME% /r /d y
ICACLS %DIRECTORY_NAME% /grant administrators:F /t
PAUSE

create a .bat file from the above.
run it with admin privs

if you want to take ownership of more drives just change the dirve letter in the script.

Works like a dream, however, on further investigation, I found that the My Music, My Videos etc under Documents was a Win7/8 thing and the correct place under 10 was up one level and called Music, Videos etc.

So, is there an undo for your solution so I can revert to a standard installation. I tried System Restore but that does not remove access to ~\Documents\My Videos etc

 

[HEXiT]

the above does the whole drive regardless of where the files are in the system tree.
so i would assume you would have to do it manually for each folder you have an issue with...
so change this
SET DIRECTORY_NAME="c:*.*"
to the path you want to change...

 

[Sabreur]

I set the path to ~\Documents\My Music so I assume that only that folder and its subfolders are effected. My question was what should lines 2 and 3 be to undo the changes?

 

[HEXiT]

http://www.askvg.com/guide-how-to-restore-trustedinstaller-as-default-owner-of-a-file-or-folder-in-windows/
this might be what your looking for.

 

[Sabreur]

That's the ticket.

Thanks