Find for Windows gives “Access Denied” when trying recurse into lower directories? (Windows Vista)

Question

for instance the command:

find "" * 

yields:

Access denied - STUFF

Answer 1

If you are using the find from GNUWin32, as I assume you are from the tags, it is conflicting with the find command already built in to Windows. If you wish to use GNU find, you'll want to rename the executable to gfind for example.