Security issue "Failed to enumerate objects in the container" even with Administrator

Hello LarryBrant and welcome to the Microsoft Community!

Based on your feedback, you are experiencing the security issue “Unable to enumerate objects in container”.

The “Unable to enumerate objects in container, access denied” error, even if you are an administrator, is usually caused by a permission misconfiguration or permission conflict.

You can try the following methods

1. Change the owner:

1. Right-click the folder and select “Properties”.
2. Select the “Security” tab, and then click “Advanced”.
3. To the right of “Owner”, click “Change”, enter “Everyone”, then click “Check Name” and OK. Click “Check Name” and confirm.
4. Check “Replace owner of child containers and objects” or “Replace permission items of all child objects with permission items that can be inherited from this object”, and then click OK.

2. Modify permissions:

1. Right-click the folder and select “Properties”.
2. Select the “Security” tab, and then click “Advanced”.
3. Click “Add”, select “Everyone” as the subject, and then click “Check Name” and OK.
4. Check “Full Control” in “Basic Privileges”, and then click OK.

3. Use the command line tool:

1. Open a command prompt (run as administrator).
2. Use the command to reset permissions, for example: icacls “C:\path\to\folder” /reset /T /C /L3.
3. Replace the path of the folder reporting the error with the path in the above example

Always looking forward to your further feedback!

Kirito|Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Hello,

See if this fix helps you:

https://www.kapilarya.com/fix-failed-to-enumerate-objects-in-the-container-on-windows-11

Hope this helps!

Note: Included link in this reply refers to blog by a trusted Microsoft MVP.