How to Fix – You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

by admin on March 6, 2010


UPDATE ON SOLUTION: Use Resident Shield Exceptions instead, see the annotation at 2:35 to see where this is if you can’t find it. ‘Windows cannot access the specified device,path,or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.’ AVG Free Solution: So you get that message when you try to open a file even if you do have the administrator rights on your user account. This is commonly caused by AVG Free Anitvirus recognising the file as anti-Windows. You may have tried exiting the AVG user interface in the task bar and found that the program still cannot be open. I show you how i managed to fix this problem with my example of WPE Pro being used. -Dr.Chaos

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MrLeeroyj1 March 6, 2010 at 2:59 am

OMG thank you so much. i was trying to use a keygen but this popped up lol. i’ve been looking on the web for about an hour till i found this ty so much!

Goatling March 6, 2010 at 3:27 am

Thanks, it helped. :D

I still feel sorry for others though.

Xelanej March 6, 2010 at 3:38 am

my problem is my avg anti virus is block also i can run it help me please to run this what can i do?

DrChaos182 March 6, 2010 at 4:08 am

Do you have any other antivirus installed?

dionyshs007 March 6, 2010 at 4:17 am

i unistall my antivirus (AVG) and i thought the problem will be soluted but it still is..and the worst i cant install AVG again!! it doesnt let me!!!!!HELP !!!!!

gomen42 March 6, 2010 at 4:28 am

It still doesn’t work.. (not the program your talking about) I’m just trying to patch a game, and when i press the .exe patch file, it keeps on doing this message. And i’ve followed your tutorial :/

dionyshs007 March 6, 2010 at 5:11 am

ughh when i am going to the file to add exception i cant find that icon (wpe pro) the file is .zip i dont know why i cant find that icon!

DrChaos182 March 6, 2010 at 5:38 am

Use Resident Shield Exceptions and select the whole folder containing the game (usually in Program Files). Read description if you need help with resident shield.

coxmob09 March 6, 2010 at 5:48 am

I’m borrowing a game of my friend and after i installed it I tried to play it but the message came up and I’m not sure what part of the file is stopping me.

XxNoCtErNaLxX March 6, 2010 at 6:18 am

you took a while to get into the tutorial :P
but WELLL done, goood job! 5 starz

DrChaos182 March 6, 2010 at 6:52 am

Do u have windows xp, have u tried booting up in safe mode?

BraveMavrick March 6, 2010 at 7:36 am

i am getting the pop up message when i try to start mulitple files like internet explorer, corel draw…ect… but the biggest problem and why i cant follow your walk though is that the pop up happens when i try to open or access AVG and the AVG icon is not in the bottom tray. any idea how to by-pass it

IVIadow March 6, 2010 at 8:20 am

Though, I don’t have AVG, this was enough to tell me to disable my antivirus (Norton) to access blocked files.

MaplerDreamer March 6, 2010 at 8:26 am

@SinnedGod, where do you go to access the resident shield?

smtowry March 6, 2010 at 9:20 am

THANK You!!! I was afraid someone downloaded something malicious on my computer. :D

monoman009 March 6, 2010 at 9:51 am

thankyou thankyou thankyou, stupid avg :) thanks

RicharddYang March 6, 2010 at 9:59 am

THANK YOU THANK YOU I SUBSCRIBED

XdemestremX March 6, 2010 at 10:08 am

thank you soo much man

WissaWolf March 6, 2010 at 10:19 am

I get that same message when I try to download off The Sims 2 site. Can someone please tell me what to do? I’m not computer literate, so you might have to dumb it down.. A lot. I mean, really.. I’m stupid with computers. I don’t even know what an executable is. lol
Btw, I have McAfee Not AVG. Thought I would add that, because it seems important. lol

12Italia3 March 6, 2010 at 10:26 am

YEHAAAh hurry the fuk up

SinnedGod March 6, 2010 at 10:51 am

If its MS you need to fix, go to resident shield, and browse and put under it (the hole ms folder) hope this helped

amurkhan5 March 6, 2010 at 11:10 am

fuckkkkk uu it dlete all my pictures my mom gonna kill me bitch

ShadyFan92 March 6, 2010 at 11:18 am

Hell yeah. Thank you.
EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION TO THE RESIDENT SHIELD PART. Makes a difference.

popnfresh93 March 6, 2010 at 12:04 pm

i cant even acess avg everytime i try i keep getting the message

getmagical March 6, 2010 at 12:27 pm

I tried that but when i tried to add on the exception list, nothing goes onto it.

Chronos2187 August 6, 2010 at 1:05 am

It worked! You are officially my hero, I looked for a fix for this for hours.

campgirl123 August 7, 2010 at 9:42 am

hey, i guess your very busy but you seem to be a bit of a genius, so i was just wondering if you could help me.
i have the same problem but i have a different anti-virus, kaspersky, don’t now if you know how i could fix the problem but any advise would be greatly appreciated.

many thanks :)

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