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When I changed the Mozilla Firefox shortcut properties, I received this error 'Unable to save changes to 'Mozilla Firefox.lnk'. Access is denied. ' What should I do?

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When I changed the Mozilla Firefox shortcut properties (Changing the shortcut icons), I received this error 'Unable to save changes to 'Mozilla Firefox.lnk'. Access is denied. ' This error also happened to Google Chrome as well. What should I do?

When I changed the Mozilla Firefox shortcut properties (Changing the shortcut icons), I received this error 'Unable to save changes to 'Mozilla Firefox.lnk'. Access is denied. ' This error also happened to Google Chrome as well. What should I do?

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Not a Firefox support issue, that is the Windows realm. You probably need admin privileges that aren't set in that logon user account.

http://lounge.windowssecrets.com/index.php

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Also check the Properties of that shortcut via the right-click context menu to make sure that it isn't Read-only.

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Thanks a lot. Now its working.