Hidden Files Showing

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Has anyone going into Folder Options and set Vista to show all hidden files
and folders and to show hidden system file? Then investigated the folder
hierarchies?

What happens here, is that I click on links and get "Access denied" even
though my account is an "Administrators" account. It even happens in folders
specific to my account.

There's even links with the "old" names e.g. a link to "My Documents". I've
noticed this since the betas. One perons said it was because I was dual
booting with XP. So I x-nayed the dual boot, re-partitioned and reformatted
and clean installed Vista only and guess what? The same setup. But you can
only see these if you unhide everything.

Anyone? Comments?

Thanks
 
Hi,
My understanding is that the Documents and Settings shortcut is there for
legacy program interface and it really doesn't exist per say. That is why it
is inaccessable.
 
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From: SESSION_EVENT [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:53 PM
Posted To: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Conversation: Hidden Files Showing
Subject: Hidden Files Showing

There's even links with the "old" names e.g. a link to "My Documents". I've
noticed this since the betas. One perons said it was because I was dual
booting with XP. So I x-nayed the dual boot, re-partitioned and reformatted
and clean installed Vista only and guess what? The same setup. But you can
only see these if you unhide everything.

Anyone? Comments?
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These are junctions created for compatibility with older software that
may have special folder names hardcoded.

I don't have any idea why Explorer cannot follow these junctions
correctly but if you "dir" them from command line you will see a content
of corresponding folders.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WindowsVistaJunctionsAndMovingMyDocumentsT
oAnotherDrive.aspx
 
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