Administration problems can't access files

[Ankerd]

"windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to view this file."

I'm the only user account on this laptop(xps 15) and i am set as admin.

Also my headphone jacks are not working.

[Ankerd]

Ideas anyone?

[mpalandr]

Ideas anyone?

You'll probably get more help if you provide more information, you didn't give us much to go on. What file(s) are you trying to access, in what folder? How are you trying to access them, e.g., Windows Explorer, an Open dialog in an application, etc.?

When you say "set as admin", do you mean a user account that's a member of the local Administrators group, or are you using the built-in Administrator account?

[Tsunade_Hime]

Did you try stripping the permissions and changing the owner? Right click on the users folder, go to security, advanced, change the owner, then change permissions to the Everyone user to full control.

[olyteddy]

"windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to view this file."

I'm the only user account on this laptop(xps 15) and i am set as admin.

Also my headphone jacks are not working.

Those likely are separate problems, although some audio jacks can have multiple purposes, and a corrupt bit of software or firmware could be the cause of the malfunction(s). Does your laptop actually have more than 1 headphone jack?

[jrittz]

"windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to view this file."

I'm the only user account on this laptop(xps 15) and i am set as admin.

Also my headphone jacks are not working.

Google search: Windows 7 Take Ownership and click on the top result. It will be a zip file containing two files... One to add the option to the right-click menu and the other file to remove it.

It's a registry file which will enable a right-click option to "Take Ownership". This is common in Windows 7 and I havent found anything better or more simple to overcome the file permission issue.