Win7 Copy/Paste/Move functionality disabled

Voicy

Voicy

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Hey team,

So a work pc with win7 on has gone funky. I presume it's due to a virus or some such that was on the pc, upsetting the permissions of the current profile, because it simply won't allow copy/pasting or moving of any files/folders. User profile has full admin rights.

However, when creating a new admin user profile everything works fine. Using the new profile and deleting the corrupt profile would be the easiest... Only trouble is, the old profile contains documents which are not accessible. Since you cannot copy/paste, it also doesn't help to try and move the documents to a public folder while using the old profile.

I have checked out the windows support forums - and nothing seems to work.

Rolling back to an older setting didn't work, nor does resetting Network DDE/Clipbook/etc. in the services.msc settings - as suggested by some (because there are none of those listed).

Can anyone perhaps offer some advice?

My only other option that comes to mind is forcing an unlock on the documents in the corrupted profile. I just can't for the life of me remember how to access a locked profile's data from a different admin profile.
 
Hey Voicorzzz,

have you tried taking "ownership" of the folders inside the user profile folder? > Folder Properties > Security > Advanced > Owner

I used to do it with XP, haven't tried Win7 yet. :)
 
Can you use a sync program like Alway Sync, Unstoppable Copier or YCopy?
 
Hiren's Boot CD

Copy data over to removable drive, make sure everything's copied over, then zap said account.

Or will the command-line work?

copy *.* etc :D
 
another option... boot from an Ubuntu Linux LiveCD (take ownership of the drive) and copy the data across from that... then delete the old folder and reboot back into Windows.
 
Thanks for the feedback chaps!

J0n0 said:
Hey Voicorzzz,

have you tried taking "ownership" of the folders inside the user profile folder? > Folder Properties > Security > Advanced > Owner

I used to do it with XP, haven't tried Win7 yet. :)
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This seems like the best way - but I need to find out how to do this in Win7...

Garyvdh said:
Can you use a sync program like Alway Sync, Unstoppable Copier or YCopy?
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No copying / moving possible.

The_Librarian said:
Hiren's Boot CD

Copy data over to removable drive, make sure everything's copied over, then zap said account.

Or will the command-line work?

copy *.* etc :D
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As above.

Adoxographist said:
The virus most likely messed up the registry. Had a problem when task manager was "disabled" on a admin account and worked fine if I created a new account. Just google windows 7 restore original registry and work from there.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4230-registry-backup-restore.html shows you how to do it but search for original registry files to download.
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Thanks, I checked out those forums and they're all pointing to the same round-about solution. Unfortunately none of this works. I'm partial to the new account, but need to get the locked files across. :/

Garyvdh said:
another option... boot from an Ubuntu Linux LiveCD (take ownership of the drive) and copy the data across from that... then delete the old folder and reboot back into Windows.
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Not an option unfortunately, but would solve my issue!
 
ponder said:
No CD/DVD drive? Can also boot it from USB.
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I have those bootup disks with me, it's not the issue ... for matters unmentioned, assume that the pc is in an isolated environment, with no means of attaining the boot up disks. (I know it's irritating, but it's one of the variables I'm faced with)
 
Take ownership,copy,delete profile,wave magic wand,charge millions
== profit
 
Hey voicy,

Bring the drive round to my place, my linux desktop does not obey windows permissions :D

EDIT: see you got the data :D
 
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