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Why some Windows folder have a lock and how can I disable it

We have noticed that a series of folders within our Windows 7 OS, has a "lock" on its names and most of them doesn't permit us to access it.  However, under c:\users\Username, the folders "Desktop", "AppData" does permit us.




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read it but no real help, can you give more straight-forward steps to delete the locks?
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you need to have the correct admin rights and from the sounds of it you might not have them
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Understood.  But like I stated above, some files with the lock let's me access it, the other (which are the majority doesn't).

I checked the access and the user does has access and the ownership is the same user and yet I can;t access it.

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Thanx all
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thanx