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by craig

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i am running vista business,,, I get access denied on dvd player and all usb devies,, however, in safe mode everything works fine...
i cannot seem to change ownership,,, i have admin rights....
HELP

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by browntj1

I too am running vista business and am denied access to dvd drive and all usb devices. Your tip to use safe mode is helpful but have you discovered any other solution?

by christophe.perinaud

Hi,
I got that problem since few days and can't find a way to get out of it. Do you have too the icons of all drives with a red circle around it ? I find this picture strange designed compare to other icons.
Can't it be some trojan or virus ?
Regards

by absolutelytracy

i have just come across the same problem, running vista business and access is denied to removable/usb drives + dvd drive, red circles around the icons in explorer and unable to change ownership despite having admin access. did you find a solution to this problem?

by john_moore

I found that you need to make sure your network setting are set to PRIVATE network and not PUBLIC. I think that either McAfee or Norton changed my settings on install.

Once I set back to PRIVATE network, the My Documents and other subsequent folders were available again.

Hope this helps someone!

by browntj1

Sadly, your suggestion did not work on my computer. In April, when Vista suddenly denied access to all media drives, I had to do a complete clean install and go back to the original factory settings to fix the problem. Now, right after a July 11 automatic Windows update, Vista has again denied access to my media drives. I'm reluctant to again wipe my hard drive clean and reinstall all my files and programs. Has anyone found another solution?

by browntj1

Your article is of great interest but my Vista Business "Local Security Policy" panel does not contain the choices listed in the article. Instead the computer offers "Local Policies/User Rights Assignment" but that choice does not list "Removable Storage Access." Where else can I look?

by timit

I had this same problem... I've read several posts of reinstalling Vista, to updating motherboard drivers, etc. all with no luck.

I went straight to the source, and fixed my problems.

*** Always set a restore point just in case before you do anything like this ***

1. Turn off UAC
2. Take ownership (with the Administrators group) of the following directories: %systemroot%\system32\drivers, and %systemroot%\system32\DriverStore
3. Close all open dialog windows.
4. Right click each of these folders, and give the 'Administrators' group 'Full Control' and propogate permissions to all child objects.

This obviously decreases security to the system, but did solve my problems and prevented a total reinstall. Use at your discretion.

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