New user added to TFS has different settings than rest of users - reporting-services

I have 2 issues going on with TFS.
We have 2 active directory roles set up for TFS and Visual Studio 2015: ADMINS and USERS. And we have one main Team Project.
We recently hired two contractors and added them to our USERS role. But what we have noticed is that on their machines, as soon as they start to edit the files, it shows as [lock, edit] where everyone else shows just [edit]. The primary difference that we know of is they have Windows 10 where the other developers are on Windows 7. I have been trying to troubleshoot this for the past week with no success. Any suggestions on what I can look at/query to find this? This isn't stopping us, but still having to workaround it.
Then mid morning one of these contractors was trying to edit some Shared Datasets. And now he keeps getting "Access to path [filepath] is denied" but so far it looks to only be happening on *.rsd and *.rds. He was able to create a Dataset, commit it to TFS. But then is unable to edit it. But he can then delete and commit the deletion to TFS. This is completely stopping him for working on these, so this is more of an issue currently.
I saw a post about checking the local file properties to see if it is read only. We did try to change the readonly setting. The file updated but it won't show in TFS Pending Changes or allow him to Undo the change. We currently have 3 solution with a ssrs project. He gets the same issue in all. I had another developer who is in the USERS role validate that she can edit.
Any suggestions on how I can trouble shoot these items is appreciated.

For the [lock, edit] issue, if the user select lock type (e.g Check in- ... Check Out-...) when Check Out for Edit... then it will show as [lock, edit].
For the "Access to path [filepath] is denied" issue, seems it's related to permission settings on your local machine or AD. So, please check if the user has the correct permission to access the the shared path/files. For the specific files, make sure they are not read-only.
To troubleshoot that, just try below things:
Try the contractor's account on other clients, (e.g on Windows 7) to
check if it has the same issue.
Try move the user from USERS role, then add the user separately
in TFS and give the corresponding permissions, then check if it has
the same issue.
Check Security and Version Control settings and make sure no
restrics.

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EDIT
- noticed you already have default shared access
- is record-level locking on?
- also try giving user full control of the shared network folder (Access needs read/write/create/delete to be able to create and delete the ldb file)
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Your time is better spent converting the database over to a server-based RDBMS such as SQL server while you still have hair.
Believe me, you will have to do it sooner or later anyway! Sorry for the bad news.