Sam Welker

Fixed it. I reinstalled H14 earlier, no luck. Tried using Tune Up utilities to clean up my SSD and Registries. That might have helped.

I think what fixed it was this: http://www.kossboss.com/windows-8—permission-issue-fix [kossboss.com]

I followed the first GUI instructions he gave more or less.

Here's a screenshot of the area that fixed it. I had to use the admin account (my account) to change permissions (by clicking change permissions) then got to this part. I check the box and hit apply and it worked.

One more image here for you.

I uninstalled Laubwerks from my machine because this is all I could find.

I have lost my shelf tools and just can't seem to find them.

I think at this point some help might help.

This is the message from H14:

File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.291/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 31653, in newShelf
return _hou.shelves_newShelf(*args, **kwargs)
PermissionError: Failed to modify node or parameter because of a permission error. Possible causes include locked assets, takes, product permissions or user specified permissions

My understanding is that my permissions are off. I am running Windows 8.1. This only started this week.

How can I get those handy little shelf tools back?