Take a look here Mike.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;308421

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Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
burrism wrote:
> I recently "organized" my second hard drive by creating
> folders and moving files to the appropriate folders. Now
> I can not access the files (.docs, .pdf, .xls). I
> receive the following error message: user does not have
> access privileges. My machine is a stand-alone single
> user Dell XPS w/ XP SP2 and no network connections. I
> can't change the properties on the files either, they
> appear to be read-only.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike