Windows 10 Home - "Unauthorized changes blocked"

Anonymous
2017-12-05T21:26:24+00:00

THIS WAS ANSWERED BY ANDRE DA COSTA ON 12/5/17 - his "fix" worked perfectly - I thought I marked this "ANSWERED" - please check his answer, below this initial post.  

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/profile/e5564792-9930-4912-828b-e206924b132a

I'm using Windows 10 x64 Home on an HP laptop - Suddenly, I can no longer download photos from my SD card using the port on my laptop and my Photoshop Elements 15 - I get the following messages:

Unauthorized changes blocked

Controlled Folder Access blocked C:...\PhotoDownloader...from making changes to the folder %userprofil...$test$

Or:

Unauthorized changes blocked 

Controlled Folder Access blocked C:...\PhotoshopElement...from making changes to the folder %userprofile%\Documents

I want to use Photoshop in order to rename each photo as I download and I'm afraid this is completely blocking my use of Photoshop at all

I'm not computer literate so any help you can give needs to be in detailed, step by step format.

Thank you for any help you can offer

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Anonymous
2017-12-05T21:35:41+00:00

Open Windows Defender Security Center

Click Virus & threat protection

Click Virus & threat protection

Scroll down to the bottom then toggle off Controlled folder access

Try again

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-21T12:38:13+00:00

    i'm having such notifications for various files now. so how can i add folder to access the control over particular file.?? frankly speaking i don't get what you explained.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-10-29T23:42:31+00:00

    Thank you that worked.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-10-17T18:52:34+00:00

    Thank you so very much. It was driving me crazy trying to figure it out.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-10-15T10:13:52+00:00

    Glenn,

    Thanks a lot for your answer. Made a custom view for it,

    I guess i'm going to try and set the controlled folder access back on again.

    I also heard (through the grapevine) in the next release there would be some improvement related to this. So lets see!

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