✅2023- Windows Cannot Access Specified Device Path or File You May Not Have Appropriate Permissions

hello guys welcome to how to fix tack in this video guys let me show you the error first if I want to install this virtual box I'm not able to install it and you can see window cannot access the specific path you may not have permission so there are mainly two reasons behind this error the first one is path is itself not available on your windows the this is just the shortcut created or you don't have the permission so first of all we will check the permission and then we will proceed with the second method now you need to right click on that executable or any other file in which you are getting the issue and go to security Tab and go to the user from which you want to access that in my case this is my username you need to click on that that edit and then select the same user here and you can see deny box is Tick here so you need to untick all of the option here okay untick is done and allow is already checked click on apply and one another thing you can do is click on ADD and type here everyone evve and check names and it will select everyone click on okay and select the user everyone and then allow all the permissions here click on apply and click on okay and click on okay so everyone in the Windows computer is able to access this executable or other file so let me double click on it now and it should fix the issue now I can see it's going to install so this is the permission label permission we have granted to the particular folder or file if you're USU still not fix sometime Windows operating system and security can block some changes so we need to open the windows security since this treat Windows security treats like the virus on something malware and we need to click on this option app and browser control then we need to click on this option reputational based settings and you can untick this option potentially unwanted app blocking you can see it is blocking the app click on untick and click on yes button and untick both option from here and save the change changes if you still get this issue after changing this you can disable your antivirus for some time okay realtime protection and all of turn off all of them and check if your issue is solve or not if your issue still persist we can go to the same file or folder you need to make sure that this exe file is executable and you know it is existing so go to the user that user okay and select that user and make sure the file or folder is available here like download or any other browser if it has so select that user and recreate the shortcut so how to recreate the shortcut once you reach that right click there and click on send and click on create shortcut desktop and shortcut created on the desktop let me show the icons you can see now it should fix your issue now this is the shortcut we just created that so this is the method to fix this issue guys so hope you're issue is fixed now if your issue is fixed then hit like subscribe and share if still not fixed you can recreate that file or folder so thank you thanks for watching how to fix Tech

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Length: 4min 42sec (282 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 18 2023