file ownership

Few aspects of Windows remain as deeply intertwined with both the day-to-day experience and the hidden inner workings of the operating system as the Windows Registry. For power users, sysadmins, and personalization enthusiasts alike, the Registry Editor is both a toolbox and a minefield—a place...

I have a system that refuses to boot to Windows 10 Professional (64-bit), and I think I need to do a reinstall. The advanced boot options is available, but it will not go into safe mode. I can however get the command line, and it recognizes both robocopy and xcopy. Assume that C is the hard...

Assume I have a file D:\aaa\bbb\ccc\ddd.txt Can this file inherit its owner from the wrapping folder? Can folder ccc inherit its owner from the parent folder bbb? Or is inheritance only applicable to access permissions and not to ownership? Peter

Hi folks there's a service called Software protection it eats my CPU it take about 30% of my CPU when it works , and it works when I startup any Office program it may also when I startup my Internet Browser The only solution to solve my problem is to take it .exe from...

When I create a file (or a script creates a file) in the windows command shell, I am unable to edit it from notepad++, ultraedit etc. I am logged in as Don (which is an administrator account). And files and folders created in windows Explorer have owner 'Don'. When I launch the Windows...

I am logged in as Bill (an admin user). I tried to create a new txt doc in an install folder far down under Program Files (x86). My only rt clk option is new folder. I opened another txt file in that folder with Ultraedit (my default editor) and saved it as NOTES.txt in that folder. Now I can...

I have a desktop system that had WinXP on it. I bought a copy of Win7, put the install CD in the drive, and booted. After waiting a long time(*), it finally booted and offered me a choice: Upgrade Complete install I'd swear I chose fresh install, but when it finished installing all my user...

So, pretty much how it goes is that - a couple of programs (specifically, 2 that I have found so far) are not able to run at all on my computer, one being an installer and the other the Windows Backup tool. In Backup and Restore, there are a couple of options such as "Create a system image"...

Hi: I have or had multiple files and documents backed up on several computers and hard drives. They are in folders, in subfolders, in subfolders. Over the years they've been copied from computer to computer and through various external drives. Recently some documents have vanished from D...

I had a look at all my files and folders on my data partition (not win7 system partition!) and found a lot of different file and folder owners e.g. Administrators Peter S-1-5-21-1078081533-1326574676-725345543-1005 .... I am not sure why one *.pdf file has a different owner than its neigbourgh...

Hi, Can someone explain this to me. (1) When I go to "Control Panel -> User Accounts". There is only one account "User / Administrator". Yet when I create a folder and look at the Security tab (in folder properties), there is a list of different users: Administrators SYSTEM Users...

When changing file ownership to allow me access to a hidden log file, something happened that removed installed apps from the app store. They are not on the start menu, nor are they shown among "All Apps". I did some digging around and managed to find the folders these apps are stored in, but...

Hello, I recently became the proud owner of a Windows 8 BSOD. I did a refresh and afterwards I can not access my C: drive. I have gone in to the Properties Tab and tried to change the writes/ take ownership for Administrators and Administrator and applied them. While applying them I get a...

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This subject might have been dealt with many times in this forum. I did search for posts before this, but I didn't find actually what I was looking for as regards the windows search. I have Windows 7 Pro x64, I use a limited user (and another one with administrator privileges, obviously). When...

Hi All, I am in a problem here. A day before yesterday, I was messing up with folder permissions and unfortunately I messed up pretty badly. The problem is I changed the folder permissions of C:\Program Files and C:\Program Files (x86) to Deny for all users. These included Authenticated Users...

I have a strange problem that is just occurred about a week before, my problem is I have a domain name and every computer (almost 50) and users are listed in active directory. About a week before when i tried to attach usb on one of the laptop (having windows 7 ultimate attached with...

Fixes a backup operation failure that occurs when you try to use GPMC to back up a GPO in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when you set "NT Service\TrustedInstaller" as the owner of a file, a registry item, or a service in the GPO. More...

I have a batch file that I use to: Create a restore point, then swap out my modified system files. I store the "Sleep.exe" file in the same folder as the batch file. The script goes something like: echo Please wait while a Restore Point is made. sleep 17 Take ownership,Rename Replace, Blah...

I've installed an extra font that I need for an application (LiberationSansNarrow). This font is available in the application, in Notepad, and shows up in the Control Panel / Fonts utility. However, when I run a task automatically using Task Scheduler, the font is not available to the...