Access Denied?

Question

Everytime I double click C:\ in "My Computer" I get error msg "Access Denied" but I can explore it using explorer, when I right click the icon I the OPEN option is on top in BOLD i guess that command gets executed when I dound click it,

Any ideas what the problem might be,
OS is Win XP Professional

HI Everyone

It my personal Laptop, I have admin rights, it was working fine untill lastnight, i did check for viruses, it clean now, all other drives are working fine, the right click menu for other drives shows EXPLORE as highlighted option, its only for C Drive OPEN is highlighted and executed when double clicked

Answer 1

check your PC for Viruses ...

Answer 2

your not set up as the administrator. you have user or guest rights only which give you read only access rights. is it your computer or a school computer which they do that to you so you cant mess with it.... Right click on the C drive, then click properties then click on the security box and see if you still have full rights it might of changed itself I've had is do it to me!!

Answer 3

I came across this at work the other day. You are probably logged on as a non-administrator user, and access to C:\ for ordinary users has been limited. Try change your User account to an Admin one, or log on as Admin

Answer 4

You insatll a standard antivirus soft ware such as Norton, AVG , Avast ( free antivirus software and Ad-aware, Ewido ( free spyware removers). You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html

Answer 5

Right click and select "sharing and security" then on the security tab. Make sure that your userid is in there.

Answer 6

download advanced windows care v2 it will tweak all register errors.i would think its probably something very simple but cleaning the register is best with windows care.
best of luck