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Next, he should check the drive for errors. He can do so in WinXP by opening My Computer, locating the Windows drive (the drive on which Windows is installed), right-clicking it, and selecting Properties from the pop-up menu. On the Tools tab of the resulting dialog box, the reader should click the Check Now option under the Error-Checking heading. He can follow the on-screen instructions to run the scan.

When the scan is finished, the reader should try to access the Documents folder. If he receives the error message again, he will have to reconfigure the folder’s security settings so that it recognizes him as an authorized user. This maneuver requires him to reboot into Safe Mode. He can do so by pressing the F8 key as the PC boots up and then selecting the Safe Mode option from the Startup menu. The reader should log in as the Administrator and click Yes to confirm that he wants to run WinXP in Safe Mode.

After Safe Mode starts, the reader should open My Computer and access the C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS folder. He then should right-click the Documents folder and select Properties from the pop-up menu. On the Security tab of the resulting dialog box, he should see a list of users and groups that have access to the folder. We doubt that he’ll see any users or groups listed on this tab, however, which means he’ll have to add them.

He can do so by clicking the Add button and, in the next dialog box that appears, typing administrator in the Enter The Object Names To Select field and clicking the Check Names button. A matching user or group name will likely appear in the field, at which point the reader should click OK to add the name to the list of users and groups who can access the folder. He should repeat this process at least twice, typing owner and system instead of administrator in the Enter The Object Names To Select field. By this time, several users and groups will have access to the folder. He can click OK to save the changes and exit. Hopefully, he will be able to access the Documents folder after he reboots the PC back into Normal mode.

Now the reader can address the second error message. Fortunately, this one is much easier to explain. As the error message indicates, the reader receives this error because Documents is a system folder that WinXP needs in order to function properly—as such, he can’t delete this folder. The reader won’t receive the error message as long as he leaves the folder in place on his hard drive.