Fellow posters,
My laptop has been having problems for 2 weeks now. Out of the blue, everytime that I try to open a file...be it IE, Firefox, iTunes, etc. it says. "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I have xp professional. What I did is start up in Safe Mode as Administrator and restore to a previous checkpoint, and it works, but the next day when I boot up again, same error. I googled the problem and found something about right-clicking the file, and under 'Properties', click 'Unblock', but I don't have that button. The way that I fixed the problem today is by right-clicking, 'Properties' and under 'Shortcut' I clicked 'Advanced', then I checked the 'Run with different credentials' and I open the file as the Administrator and it works. Others dont seem to work however...like iTunes for example. Please help...I'm going nuts!
My laptop has been having problems for 2 weeks now. Out of the blue, everytime that I try to open a file...be it IE, Firefox, iTunes, etc. it says. "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I have xp professional. What I did is start up in Safe Mode as Administrator and restore to a previous checkpoint, and it works, but the next day when I boot up again, same error. I googled the problem and found something about right-clicking the file, and under 'Properties', click 'Unblock', but I don't have that button. The way that I fixed the problem today is by right-clicking, 'Properties' and under 'Shortcut' I clicked 'Advanced', then I checked the 'Run with different credentials' and I open the file as the Administrator and it works. Others dont seem to work however...like iTunes for example. Please help...I'm going nuts!