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"You may not have the appropriate permissions" blocks everything.

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Whenever I click on the Mozilla Firefox icon, I get a message saying The item referred to on this shortcut cannot be accessed. You may not have the appropriate permissions. When I tried to uninstall Firefox I got the same message about permissions.

Whenever I click on the Mozilla Firefox icon, I get a message saying The item referred to on this shortcut cannot be accessed. You may not have the appropriate permissions. When I tried to uninstall Firefox I got the same message about permissions.

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Did you install as a administrator?