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

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

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Security and privacy

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments
Answer accepted by question author
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

Was this answer helpful?

700+ people found this answer helpful.
0 comments

88 additional answers

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-03T13:11:17+00:00

    Found a better way than "totally turning off 'Controlled folder access'"

    Drop down one more feature to:  EXCLUSIONS

    ADD one and it will open "Windows Explorer"

    Locate " VLC.exe

    clik on it

    And it will EXCLUDE ONLY "VLC "AND NOT everything on your PC.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-03T12:49:04+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

    You are close but there is more for those NOT  Windows Sys Admin.

    I did what you said but v1709 is not quite like that.

    Here is how I got it finally to work:

    enter "Windows Defender Security Center" into the MENU SEARCH BAR ( Windows Defender Security Center ) is hard to find  and this was the easiest.

    search will find "Windows Defender Security Center".

    clik it

    It will open the "Windows Defender Security Center " window.

    clik " Virus and Threat Protection"

    another window will open.

    THEN scroll down to "Virus & threat protection settings"

    clik

    another window will open.

    Go to bottom and find:   "Controlled Folder Access"

    TURN OFF

    WILL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL YOU REBOOT

    and I then set "VLC" to a default again.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-24T13:31:30+00:00

    Thanks for that simple remedy. Keep it coming

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-07T03:47:28+00:00

    i mainly use my pc what is window 10 for gaming and it says that whenever my computer restarts randomly when i play like mass effect Andromeda or battlefront1 or 2 or any games what just came out few years back by turning it off it basically don't blocks anything i am perfectly fine with that because i don't do anything but check facebook or my primary gaming email or game on steam or origin or etc

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments