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
    2018-07-11T20:54:59+00:00

    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

    <Moved from Windows  / Windows 10  / Files, folders, & storage>

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-11T13:46:23+00:00

    I think your answer needs clarification. It should read: 

    Open Windows Defender Security Center 

    Click 'Virus & threat protection' 

    Click 'Virus & threat protection settings' 

    Scroll down to 'Control folder access' 

    Click 'Manage controlled folder access' 

    On 'Controlled folder access' it should say 'On'. Click on this to toggle to 'Off'. 

    It might sound petty, but I wasn't sure when I was following your instructions, hence this revision when I found out what to do.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-28T03:37:09+00:00

    My laptop Win 10 is corrupted and can not get to the "windows 10 virus & threat exceptions" screen but here is a link I used.

    https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5924-add-remove-windows-defender-exclusions-windows-10-a.html

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-27T10:54:03+00:00

    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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    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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