Save/Open dialog not showing favorites

[colinstu]

Having a weird problem.

The Save/Open dialog in MS Office Apps, Notepad, Paint looks fine.

However the same dialog while in Chrome and IE... the favorites don't appear (no text, icon, or contents. I can right click > cut it, if I paste and open it, it's a normal link to the links folder. If I right click > delete, nothing happens).

Reading online,

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder]

is the location for this folder... and it seems to match up 100% correct with a regular system.

It also exists here

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}]

... but here is where the differences lay. Mine is empty and has no folders inside there, whereas I think it's supposed to contain the same stuff as the CLASSES_ROOT reg key too.

I've tried adding them, but I don't have the right permissions. If I try to change the permissions, I get "Unable to save permission changes on X. Access is denied."

Can you guys check what your reg entries look like? Anyone know how I can get the right permissions? / fix the problem?

Thanks.