I Want To Edit Some Files In C:\Program Files\WindowsApps Folder But I Cant Do So. I Changed The Owner To Everyone And Also Given Every User Full Access. But When I Try To Edit Files Or Create Some New Files I Cant. It Shows Me Error. Please Help Me. I Think This Is Due To The Entry In win://sysappid Which Is Shown As Curropted. If Yes, Then Please Tell How Can I Fix It.
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Lately, I've been quite annoyed at the fact that I can't edit files in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder. I've used the takedown command, in elevated CMD, and changed permissions, to allow admins to have full control (I am an admin), and changed owner to Administrators. I can delete files/folders, yet, whenever I try to edit files, or add files, I get the error message "Access is denied." How do I enable creating files and editing files in WindowsApps?
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I recently followed some instructions to reset GitHub for Windows by deleting two folders found within %AppData% and %LocalAppData%, and I've seen these paths before, but never understood them, and searching for them didn't yield the information I wanted to find. What does the percent sign mean in file paths on Windows, as opposed to navigating to C:\Users\etc, and what are the folders %AppData% and %LocalAppData%?
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I can't delete a certain folder in Windows 7. It's not a system folder. It was created by an app. I get an error message "You need permission to perform this action. You require permission from Tony....". I am an admin and logged in as myself Tony. I have full ownership of the folder with full control permission. I rebooted the machine. I killed the app which created the folder. I am out of ideas.  Why is Windows 7 not letting me delete the folder?
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I'm new at Linux and I just download Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  I found a spot that showed me how join my Windows Active Directory.  It has me add couple lines into the 'hosts' but I'm not able to edit the file because I do not have the permission.  I'm not the owner.  I use chmod with it rwx and still it will not let edit the file.  How do you change the permission?  Thanks
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When I try to open folders (and the trash can) by double-clicking on them on the desktop nothing happens. However, when I right-click on the folder, select "Open with another application", and then select Nautilus it opens normally. I think that it has something to do with the default file manager maybe? (I can open other files that aren't folders normally)
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How can I grant a particular user the permission to create symlinks in Windows 7?  I've searched through "Group Policy" and Google, but haven't found anything.  On a side note, is there a way to search through everything in Group Policy Editor? The filters only seem to work on particular subtrees. I never actually found anything using the filters.
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Why, when I create a file from within Windows for example, can I not see it under the Linux sub system in Windows 10 (bash.exe)   The screenshot should explain.  Folder: OMG was created from within Windows Explorer.  Folder OMGBash was created from with Linux sub system bash.exe  When a folder OR file is created outside of bash.exe I can never see it, regardless of permissions and ownership.  To show the information I have had to use Cygwin to show file permissions, I have also altered the permissions to see if the folder would appear. (The two command windows at the bottom)   Screenshot showing folder, bash.exe and Cygwin permissions:    I am trying to move all my Cygwin scripts over to the Linux subsystem, but I don't fancy recreating every file, then having to copy and past using bash, then reformatting then using Dos2unix (very long winded).  Found this on GitHub for the Linux subsystem:      copying directly into the Linux subsystem from Windows is not   supported, according to discussion on other tickets. There is a   directory under AppData somewhere (I forget where) that appears to   contain the files for the WSL filesystem. But if you put new files   there, or modify existing files there, your changes are not reflected   correctly inside WSL.      My best guess is that Linux needs to store different metadata (and   more caching information, etc, since its disk-buffering model is also   different) about its files than Windows does, and that this is   currently implemented by storing the master copy of the structure of   the Linux filesystem in a database of some sort, and just using the   Windows filesystem as a convenient BLOB-store for that database.      If you really need to do this, a workaround would be to write a   drag'n'drop .bat script or somesuch that does bash.exe -c "mv %1   /home/$USER/". (You'll have to do some clever work with sed and tr,   probably, to translate %1 to a valid WSL path.)      Alternatively -- could you put your files in a Windows directory and,   within WSL, do "cd ~; ln -s /mnt/c/path/to/my/files" to make them   appear to be in your WSL homedir?
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I deleted the  /usr/share/themes directory, how can I recover it? Is there any way to check if there is any missing file/directory in /Computer directory? This was a bad try to change GIMP and Inkscape themes ("gtkrc" file). I changed all "gtkrc" files that I found in the system (stupid me...) and now my windows and apps are distorted =(
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I've been using the 64-bit version of Windows 7 since the CTP and have run into a few problems with applications that get installed in the C:\Program Files (x86) folder. What's the purpose of having 2 separate Program Files directories anyway?  Every program I've installed has gone into the C:\Program Files (x86) folder. It doesn't seem to matter if the app is 32 or 64 bit. Why don't 64-bit apps get placed in C:\Program Files?  Is there a way to change the default to be C:\Program Files instead? Would it mess anything up if I just put everything into C:\Program Files?   If indeed there is some benefit to having a separate folder for 64 bit apps, it seems like the more sensible default would have been to use C:\Program Files for x86 apps and create a new C:\Program Files (x64) folder for the new 64-bit apps. This would help maintain backwards compatibility. I work as a software developer and some of my projects contain path references to libraries under C:\Program Files. Now those references are broken on the Windows 7 machine that has placed them in C:\Program Files (x86). I even tried to change the target location in the installer to be C:\Program Files, but that was ignored and the app went into C:\Program Files (x86) anyway.  This is very frustrating because I need to share source code between 32 and 64 bit machines and I don't want to have to mess with some configuration file that sets the path to these libraries differently on different machines.  Edit regarding environment variables: (Using only default English values of variables for simplicity.) On a 64-bit machine %ProgramFiles% will be C:\Program Files while the brand new variable %ProgramFiles(x86)% will be C:\Program Files (x86). So, if you have a 32-bit program that needs to find the folder path that it would be installed under, it would need to check to see if it was running on a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of Windows in order to know which environment variable to use. Any 32-bit apps that were written without this consideration would need to be updated in order to work correctly on a 64-bit machine. So even using environment variables, the backwards compatibility is broken.  Also, %ProgramFiles(x86)% doesn't exist on 32-bit versions of Windows. If it did, then 32-bit apps could just always use that environment variable and wouldn't need any conditional logic based on which OS they're running on.
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As part of the program I wrote, I constantly read and write data from files. I noticed that as part of doing so, I am inadvertently creating swap .swp files.  What do you think is going on? What would cause swap files to appear if you had to reproduce the problem?
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When I right-clicked into an .exe file then chose Open with... and I select choose a program then I selected the wrong program. I checked the checkBox that has the label Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.  Now all of the .exe files have changed into the wrong program after I did this, so all .exe file opened with this program.  How do I revert the .exe file associations to do my regular work?
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I am trying to fix start menu damage after windows 10 install.  Currently, I removed all files from known locations of start menu files, but still have some entries in Start Menu.  Here is the proof folders are empty:    And here is the proof that I still have some entries in Main Menu:    What are all locations of Start Menu folders in Windows 10?
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Is it possible to easily change all file type associations that are currently associated with one program to another program in one batch?  In my case, I am trying to change all files types currently associated with Notepad to instead use Notepad++ in Windows 7.  It's a pain to go through Default Programs &gt; Set Associations because after each type the entire list re-populates, taking several seconds.  Is there a way I can do a search and replace in the registry, or something even easier?
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I have a program that requires administrative privileges to run (i.e. the UAC prompts when it starts)  Can i have this program run at start-up?  its in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run  but fails to start when i log in.  How do i fix this?
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How can I find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows?  For instance, when trying to delete a folder, Windows reports this:     The action can't be completed because the folder is open in another program   Happens the same with a file, but how do I find out what program or application is currently using it and preventing me from deleting the file or folder?
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sorry fresh user. I installed about 9 days ago and had issues with Unity disappearing which took 5 days of headaches to fix. It never did fix, I reinstalled.   I set up Plex (media server) and while the server is running and can be accessed by external network devices, I can't add files. Plex says this is because of permissions. I have gone up and down the forums here and at Plex to get an answer. It seems everyone says   chmod -R 755 /media/My\ Book/Videos   will change permissions to allow the folder "Videos" on my external USB 2.0 NTFS 3TB Western Digital drive (which is mounted and accessible through the file manager) as well as every sub-directory and file contained therein to be accessible to user "Plex".  I have used file manager and as soon as you click to change permissions it changes right back. When I chmod with -c it tells me every file is changed (usually 600) to 755 as I commanded it to do. I did   ls -l   to verify and there is no change. (I also used ls -l to make sure I knew who the owner was and it is me (mvl1014). ls -al gives me the same info.)  I swear to god I tried to sudo it and after smashing my head against this keyboard for basically the entirety of my day, I tried it as root. I was scared shi-less but couldn't come up with anything else. sudo su to root and then chmod -R -c /media/My\ Book/Videos  Same result. -c told me every single file was changed and a check in Unity or in terminal confirmed not a darn thing changed.  Now it seems to me that even if that isn't the thing stopping Plex from working there is still a problem with this command not going through.  12.04LTS -- on gen 1 i7 (2.7 GHz I believe) with 6 GB ram   I've attempted to attach a screenshot but I'm told I need 10 reps to do so, which means I'm copy/pasting too.  Please excuse my obfuscation, but Lorem Ipsum seemed unnecessary. And I tried multiple ways to format this but it looks perfect every way and messed up each time in the preview below. (Ugh, I'm a mess.)  $ chmod -R -c 755 /media/My\ Book/Videos  .....  .....  .....  mode of `/media/My Book/Videos/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx.mkv' changed from 0600 (rw-------) to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)    ls -al shows:  mvl1014@FX6800:/media/My Book/Videos$ ls -al   total 88  drwx------ 1 mvl1014 mvl1014     0 Aug 28 15:17 .   drwx------ 1 mvl1014 mvl1014 20480 Sep  3 14:29 ..  drwx------ 1 mvl1014 mvl1014  8192 Aug 28 15:18 xxxx drwx------ 1 mvl1014 mvl1014 49152 Aug 16 14:02 xxxx drwx------ 1 mvl1014 mvl1014  8192 Aug 27 21:36 xxxx drwx------ 1 mvl1014 mvl1014  4096 Jul 23 19:09 xxxx   I apologize if this has been asked. I looked through this place plus at all the suggested "Similar Questions". The closet thing I got to an answer , but running the provided code with my own UID didn't work either.
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First, I've tried  which is using gpedit.msc Second, I've tried  which is using SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe to uninstall, and deleting of some left over registry keys.  I've rebooted.  And still every time I open explorer, I've got this big p.o.s. banner that makes me absolutely hate even using windows.    How do I get rid of this and OneDrive completely?