Photo Gallery Can't Open This Picture?

The complete message is:

"Photo Gallery Can't Open This Picture Because You Do Not Have Permission To Access The File Location."

The short of it was on Wednesday I HAD to do a system recovery because my laptop keeps throwing strops with me so I did a System Recovery but not before going to advanced options and backing up my pictures the thing is I do have these pictures so for example it says "Me At Statue Of Liberty." or "Me At Ellis Island" but alas with no pictures in other words the icons are there with the title but no image is there a very clever person out there that can tell me how to get the picture back without spending 45 wasted minutes on a computer support line if so I would be eternally grateful and you would be helping save the life of this laptop as well :)

But seriously I would like some advise, thank you :)

Muffer_3: Your answer is what makes this place Y/A the place it is. I asked a genuine question and that which I needed a genuine answer and you my friend provided that and so much more.

Thank you :)

turn on UAC in user accounts, but remember your venerable running your computer logged on with administrative rights because if a Trojan takes hold, the Trojan has the same rights and will delete things
So keep it off at the best of times

System Restore shouldn't effect those pictures at all. Unless you're restoring something due to Picture Viewer messing up, SysRes shouldn't have changed anything. (When you double click a picture file, say .jpg, .gif, .bmp, etc. Picture Viewer shows the picture. This is Microsoft's product & installed on most, if not all, windows versions.) Run checkdisk. Double click MyComputer, then right click C:\, then Tools, & you'll find "Error Checking". Check the fix system file box (not search for bad sectors) & OK it. It'll ask you about running at reboot (or startup), say yes & reboot your PC. (Wait a few seconds to see if it reboots itself. It usually doesn't, it leaves running checkdisk up to you). It'll take about 5-10 minutes to check & fix what it can. It's been a lifesaver for me a dozen times.