Can not unlock the files in Documents & Settings folder on can I 7

Windows 7 won't let me edit the security permissions in the folder Documents & settings even with admin privileges, so I can open it with the file.  Any action that I am trying just reminds me of the change owner screen that says I don't have permission to view the access settings.  Never can get to the window to actually change the permissions.  I just did a clean reinstall of the system because of a problem.  Access permissions were no problem until I did the re-install.

You're not locked: this file does not actually exist in Windows 7.  But backward compatibility to old programs that look for this name, they put a redirect (called a symbolic link) in place.  So, it looks like a folder, but it is not really a record at all.

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry

Windows Vista forward: C:\Users\Jerry

They were replaced by a smaller folder 'Users' of a single word, but apart from the name change, it's the same folder.  Again once the 'Documents and Settings' you see is not really a file, it's just a redirect of compatibility so old programs that await the long name will not crash when used on Windows Vista/7 from.

PS. You should not even SEE this redirect normally link, it shows that if you go to Folder Options and turn on the 'display protected system files and folders' and 'display the hidden files and folders '.  That is why the link is kind of ghost and gray, because it is a hidden link junction, not a real folder.

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