Troubleshoot of "Access is Denied" for File Sharing Violation

"Access is Denied" error message when you try to open a folder

To resolve this issue, you must turn off Simple File Sharing, and then take ownership of the folder:

1.                Turn off Simple File Sharing:

a.        Click Start, and then click My Computer.

b.        On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.

c. Under Advanced Settings, click to clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box, and then click OK.

2.                Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.

3.                Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message, if one appears.

4.                Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.

5.                In the Name list, click your user name, Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. 

If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, click to select the Replace owner on sub containers and objects check box.

6.                Click OK. 

You may receive the following error message, where Folder is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of:

You do not have permission to read the contents of directory Folder. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control? All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes.

7.                Click Yes.

8.                Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and the folder contents.

 

Fixing sharing violation or file may be in use errors

Note that getting the Access is Denied message can be caused by a sharing violation, so if the above method did not work, try the following. You can download and install a free program called Unlocker that will allow you to right-click on the file or folder in question and see all of the processes that currently hold a lock.

If the program finds any locks, you’ll get a window as shown below where you can either kill the process or Unlock all of the processes.Also, you can choose an action from the drop down menu, which includes Copy, Move, Delete and Rename for a locked file. The program is very useful when you get these types of error messages:

·                                 Cannot delete file: Error 5 Access is denied

·                                 There has been a sharing violation

·                                 The source or destination file may be in use

·                                 The file is in use by another program or user

·                                 Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use

Program is very light weight and does not take up very many resources at all. Works pretty well, but of course I was not able to test every situation! Like I said above, if you’ve been denied access manually by someone, you will not be able to get into that folder or file unless you are given permissions from an Administrator!

I would recommend uninstalling "any" HP software first, then download and install the latest driver from HPs site. You could could also try running the installer with all startup apps disabled incase there is some conflicting software. You can do this by typing in "msconfig" from start > run. Once open select "selective startup" then uncheck "load startup items". If you resort to this be sure you have uninstalled all HP software first as some HP software does run at startup. Also be sure to re-enable the startup items after troubleshooting.