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Thread: How to Restore Default Folder/Drive Permissions

  1. #1
    Paul Thomas Guest

    How to Restore Default Folder/Drive Permissions

    I've just finished a clean install of Vista but one of my drives
    permissions are messed up. I was able to add my account so I can
    access all the files on the drive but just to be safe I would like to
    restore the default permissions to that drive.

    Is there a way to do this?


  2. #2
    Joe Guidera Guest
    Which drive? The boot drive or another drive.

    This would be another drive (E:). Only data is on here....no
    programs, OS, etc. Just don't want to reformat.

  3. #3
    Joe Guidera Guest

    Re: How to Restore Default Folder/Drive Permissions

    Try the following good old fashioned defaults
    (and check the box to replace permissions on child objects)

    Authenticated users
    Modify
    Read/Execute
    List contents
    Read
    Write

    System
    Full control

    Administrators
    Full control

    Users
    Read & Execute
    List folder contents
    Read

    If you want the more restrictive set of permissions (generally for your boot
    drive)
    Authenticated Users
    Special permissions
    Traverse
    List folders /read data
    Read attributes
    Read extended attributes
    Create files / write data
    Create folders / append data
    Write attributes
    Write extended attributes
    Delete
    Read permissions

    Users
    Read & Execute
    List folder contents
    Read

    Administrators
    Full control

    System
    Full Control

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    larsendata Guest
    I have similar problem,permissions got messed up for c:windows\system32
    Is there a way to restore it to default permissions as when the system
    was installed?

    Please post a detailed description about the problem you're facing. Are you trying to write to the System32 folder, and receiving an error?

  5. #5
    larsendata Guest
    The problem was that the system32 folder and everything under it got
    messed up by a familymember so i tryed to set it up as it was before by
    looking in another pc.
    Coudn´t start several system programs and eventlog was one of them.
    I´v fixed that one,didn´t have right permissions in the folder
    \win32\winevt.
    But for future problems like this is there quick way to set permissions
    on for example c:\windows and c:\windows\system32 ?.
    A quick way to restor it to default.

    There is a default security template which can be applied, but it resets all the registry permissions, security for system files/folders to defaults.

  6. #6
    arielmanayon Guest

    Re: How to Restore Default Folder/Drive Permissions

    Hi, Please help. I removed the "Authenticated Users" in the Security
    Tab. I did not really removed it. I just unchecked all the boxes, and
    when I clicked "OK", the "Authenticated Users" was gone in the list. I
    think this leads to several changes.

    How do you restore the "Authenticated Uses" in the list? Please help.
    Thanks

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