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  1. #1
    Steelcity1981 Guest

    Account Unknown

    I notice when I click on properties on certain folders and then the security
    tab, I see an Account Unknown SID. I looked in the user profiles under Local
    Users and Groups to see if there was an Account Unknown profile to erase, but
    there wasn't.

    This Account Unknown may have poped up when I was running Vista on my
    second hard drive and now that Vista is gone it seemed like it left an
    Account Unknown user Where a Vista Account used to be on certain files and
    folders.

    Is there any way to get rid of this Account Unknown from these certain files?

    Thanks in advance.


  2. #2
    Ronaldo Guest

    Re: Account Unknown

    Just select it and click on "Remove" in Security\Advanced Options, it should
    appear in the main drive or parent folder which you took possession of from
    the Vista installation, so remove it from that parent drive or folder's
    Properties\Security\Advanced Options\Permissions\Select unknown SID and
    click on "Remove", and to do it only once (from the parent object) mark
    "Replace permission entries in all secondary objects with those entries
    included here that are relative to secondary objects", to inherit the
    security settings to all files and folders included in the drive or parent
    folder.

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    "Steelcity1981" <Steelcity1981@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el
    mensaje news:5269398F-CEC6-4D3B-96D5-AE79D9360BAB@microsoft.com...
    > I notice when I click on properties on certain folders and then the

    security
    > tab, I see an Account Unknown SID. I looked in the user profiles under

    Local
    > Users and Groups to see if there was an Account Unknown profile to erase,

    but
    > there wasn't.
    >
    > This Account Unknown may have poped up when I was running Vista on my
    > second hard drive and now that Vista is gone it seemed like it left an
    > Account Unknown user Where a Vista Account used to be on certain files and
    > folders.
    >
    > Is there any way to get rid of this Account Unknown from these certain

    files?
    >
    > Thanks in advance.
    >





  3. #3
    Steelcity1981 Guest

    Re: Account Unknown

    I tried that and when I went back to reinherit it is still pops up. Is there
    a tool or something that will erase this for you?

  4. #4
    Steelcity1981 Guest

    RE: Account Unknown

    All is good now, I fixed the Account Unknown. it longer shows up on any of
    my folders that it once was inheriting under the folder property/security
    tab section.

    It was a simple fix really all I did was went into one of the folder that
    was showing the Account Unknown in the property/security tab section, then
    clicked advanced, then highlighted the Account Unknown and finally put my
    mouse over the inheriting from part in which it showed a pop-up window with
    the path of this Account Unknown which was C:\Documents And Settings\Admin.
    So then I wen into C:\Documents And Settings\Admin folder, then went to the
    property/security tab section of that folder, highlighted the Account
    Unknown and click on Remove and clicked on Ok. From there on out the Account
    Unknown was no longer in any of the the folder property/security tab section
    that it used to be in.


  5. #5
    Ronaldo Guest

    Re: Account Unknown

    Congrats!...

    ------------------------
    "Steelcity1981" <Steelcity1981@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el
    mensaje news:1ECB03D2-8A70-45D4-8B6A-CC78AFF94D97@microsoft.com...
    > All is good now, I fixed the Account Unknown. it longer shows up on any of
    > my folders that it once was inheriting under the folder property/security
    > tab section.
    >
    > It was a simple fix really all I did was went into one of the folder that
    > was showing the Account Unknown in the property/security tab section, then
    > clicked advanced, then highlighted the Account Unknown and finally put my
    > mouse over the inheriting from part in which it showed a pop-up window

    with
    > the path of this Account Unknown which was C:\Documents And

    Settings\Admin.
    > So then I wen into C:\Documents And Settings\Admin folder, then went to

    the
    > property/security tab section of that folder, highlighted the Account
    > Unknown and click on Remove and clicked on Ok. From there on out the

    Account
    > Unknown was no longer in any of the the folder property/security tab

    section
    > that it used to be in.
    >




  6. #6
    Steelcity1981 Guest

    Re: Account Unknown

    Sorry for the mis-spelled words last night, It was late when I wrote it.

  7. #7
    Ronaldo Guest

    Re: Account Unknown

    NP most of us do it sooner or later!
    -----------------------------
    "Steelcity1981" <Steelcity1981@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el
    mensaje news:77B00B11-8510-44F3-9909-DFFA06B2E372@microsoft.com...
    > Sorry for the mis-spelled words last night, It was late when I wrote it.






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