<p>You might receive the following warning message on Windows Server 2008 or 2012 or Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10: &#8220;<strong>You don&#8217;t currently have permission to access this folder</strong>&#8221;</p>
<p>This warning message is related to Windows User Account Control (UAC) and can happen when you try to access a folder on the servers file system even though you have access permission..</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/permission-to-folder.gif"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1878 size-full" src="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/permission-to-folder.gif" alt="permission" width="379" height="205" /></a></p>
<p>If you click continue UAC will add your username to ACL and provide you with full control permissions for the folder, sub-folders and files.<!--more--></p>
<p>In this way ACL of the folder can become rather messy as each user/admin will be added to the ACL list when he/she tries to access it .</p>
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<p>To be able to fix this issue you should open local policy editor (<strong>gpedit.msc</strong>) and navigate to:</p>
<p><strong>Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies| Security Options</strong></p>
<p>In the right pane change the following values and settings:</p>
<p>User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account = <strong>Disabled</strong><br />
User Account Control: Behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode: <strong>Elevate without prompting</strong><br />
User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode = <strong>Disabled</strong></p>
<p>You can change this per server using <strong>gpedit.msc</strong> and local policy or you can create a New Group Policy object and link it to servers using Group Policy.</p>
<p>Comments are welcome.</p>

You don’t currently have permission to access this folder
