Comments on: Destination Folder Access Denied - You need permission to perform this action in Vista

By: Littletechgirl

Littletechgirl — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:56:33 +0000

Argh. I have been all over the web trying to find a fix for this problem. I came to this page and finally thought this was my answer, but it does not work for me. I have a few files on my desktop that I cannot move or do anything to because of the “Destination Folder Access Denied” message. It is driving me crazy!!

By: Jomammy

Jomammy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:57:02 +0000

Works great just had to restart after installing.

By: Reapersarms

Reapersarms — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:35:11 +0000

Hello everyone, i’m trying to move a file called dbgeng.dll to my system32 file….I’ve tried the tool above but i still get that stupid prompt.. I dont know any way around it at all, hopefully some of you can help me out. Thanks reaper.

p.s i’ve already taken full admin rights too.

By: John

John — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:17:01 +0000

The take-control registry modification installed, and works on generic folders. But it does NOT work on the windows\fonts folder, which is the one folder I need to take control of! (Vista 64pro)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:36:50 +0000

OMG…I looked everywhere and tried everything till I found this post…Yippee. I finally could delete that damn file and folder. I usually never reply to these posts, just read them for advice. However, this was so helpful for a non computer brat like me that I just had to say, “Thanks”.

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:56:17 +0000

just unistal the antivirus,indeed AVG ANTIVIRUS and check to remove all the options and done

By: Ray Roberts

Ray Roberts — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:42:51 +0000

Am getting a slightly differnt version of this problem. I want to copy a file (txt, pdf, apparently anything) from my Vista desktop (or a net-drive that Vista accesses just fine) to a USB flash drive. I cannot do this. What is also strange is that a month ago I sucessfully copied a file to one of the same USB drives that I cannot do this to now — but I can copy that and any other files on any of my USB drives to my Vista desktop w/o problems. Oh, have tried the take ownership trick but no joy eitehr.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:25:07 +0000

Nevermind, I got it…! I didn’t have the “save target as…” option, so I had to get it another way.

Not sure if it is my comp or what, so for anyone else who may need some help:

Click on the link and go to File > Save Page As… and add “.reg” to the end of the file name (”Take_Ownership.reg”). Then, change file type to “All files” and save to your desktop.

Double-click on the file. When prompted, click “Run” to install. You can then erase the file from the desktop. ‘Tis all.

Thanks for this! It worked perfectly

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:13:26 +0000

I don’t understand… how do I download it??