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re: Cannot access specified device...
Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 9:37 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jay
(1 messages posted)
I find this is usually related to anti-virus software. Boot into safe mode and disable
your security software using msconfig.
I realize this thread is very old, but it still pops up promenently on Google.
On Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 6:07 pm, JcChesh wrote:
>I am constantly getting the error message
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>"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the
>appropriate permissions to access the item."
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>when I try to access nearly anything from the start menu or the My computer folder.
>On the desktop and some folders when I click nothing happens. The only thing working
>are some of my audio files.
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>I have tried booting to the dos prompt to fix the registry with the scanreg /fix
>command but that did not seem to help the problem. Since I can't even get regedit
>to work (keeps asking me what file to open it with) I do not know what to do and
>I could use some help. Thanks
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