Windows 10: Documents suddenly locked and cannot be accessed - Windows 10

Several documents in my documents folder .docx and .pdf were locked without any action or warning. I was able to access these files before they randomly became locked, even when logged in as an administrator. I have tried accessing these files from methods in forums and personal research but nothing has worked so far. When trying to open .docx documents in Word, an error message pops up saying "user does not have access privileges.". Documents that are added to the folder since then do not lock, but the original documents remain locked. Is this a known issue and is there a known fix/cause fo

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Prooblems accessing documents

Hi Jilly,

Generally, the Documents folder found under Quick access is the Documents folder built-in to Windows, and not the Documents folder in OneDrive. Since you mentioned that both This PC and OneDrive are giving you the "Location is not available." message,
do you mean to say that both Documents folders are missing from Quick access?

Based on the screenshot that you've provided, you are accessing your Documents through This PC, instead of Quick access. Have you tried pinning the Documents folder from This PC to Quick access? If not, we suggest that you do. This way, you won't need to
go through several folders to reach your files.

Here's how:

• Access the contents of of the user account that you're using, in your case, it's the
  jilly folder from This PC > OS (C >
  Users > jilly.
• Right-click on Documents, and then select Pin to Quick access.

Regarding the OneDrive folder, we suggest restoring the Documents folder from the OneDrive recycle bin so we can avoid further errors. You may refer to this
support article for steps on how to restore deleted files and folders
in OneDrive.

Is your OneDrive synced to your Windows 10 PC? If so, you can try to restore the Documents folder from
http://onedrive.live.com. Steps on how to restore deleted files and folders can be found in this
support article under the
Restore deleted items section.

Let us know how it turns out.

 

access to Documents and Settings in Windows 10

Hi William,

For us to isolate the issue regarding your access to documents and settings, we will need to ask you a few questions:

• Are you having issues with Microsoft Access?
• Are you getting any error messages?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• Since when are you experiencing the issue?
• Any recent changes made prior to the issue?

Regards.