UPDATE ON SOLUTION: Use Resident Shield Exceptions instead, see the annotation at 2:35 to see where this is if you can’t find it. ‘Windows cannot access the specified device,path,or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.’ AVG Free Solution: So you get that message when you try to open a file even if you do have the administrator rights on your user account. This is commonly caused by AVG Free Anitvirus recognising the file as anti-Windows. You may have tried exiting the AVG user interface in the task bar and found that the program still cannot be open. I show you how i managed to fix this problem with my example of WPE Pro being used. -Dr.Chaos
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How to Fix – You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.