

If you have a third-party security software installed, disabling the program largely depends on the security software – refer to the instruction manual. Also make sure TOR is allowed through Windows Firewall. You can temporarily disable Microsoft Defender, if that’s the security software you are running on your system. If that’s the case, you will need to whitelist TOR, or disable your security software. The security software (most especially from third-party vendors) running on your Windows PC might be flagging TOR browser wrongly, blocking it from opening or working correctly. If this didn’t work for you, try the next solution. By default, TOR is installed at the following location on your local drive: C:\Program Files\Tor Browser\Browser In this case, you can resolve this by assigning Full Control permission to the TOR browser folder, and then relaunch the browser.

Please adjust your file system permissions and try again.

Tor browser does not have permission to access the profile. You may receive the following error message after you have installed TOR and try to launch the browser 1] Assign Full Control permission to TOR browser folder

And if your system just woke up from hibernation or sleep mode, relaunch TOR browser or reboot computer. If unsure, you can simply reboot the computer. Also, only one instance of TOR can run at a time so check if TOR is already running in Task Manager. Let’s take a look at the description of the process involved concerning each of the listed solutions.īefore you proceed with the solutions below, you need to make sure your Windows computer’s clock is set to correct date and time.
