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I am getting Access Denied in "Temporary Internet Files" folder in Windows 7. There's no Security tab in the properties option, which means I am unable take ownership from there. I am an administrator on the machine. Just to clarify this issue happened to Temporary Internet Files folder in the "Documents and Settings" folder.

How do I give myself full access to that folder?

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The location of the Temporary Internet Files in Windows 7 has changed. Are you sure you're looking in the right place? Documents and Settings is a junction point to support older software that didn't follow Windows API rules for saving user data correctly.

Have a look in C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary Internet Files instead.

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If the folder has a blue arrow on the left side of the icon, it is a junction point (aka: Folder redirection) and is not actually a folder as explained by Randolph.

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Yeah. I thought it was a folder and then I changed permissions for that. No problem after that to access the contents, but it causes a "bug" on Windows search, because now I have more than one occurrence for the a file inside both paths when I search... :( – kokbira Apr 26 '11 at 23:01
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