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Need help resetting folder permissions
I have been messing around with folder permissions on a Windows partition, and now I'd like to revert them back to how they were when Windows got installed. I know about icacls, and that it comes with a reset option, but that option doesn't actually reset it to default, it just uses the permissions at the path you're calling icacls from, and then replacing all permissions from there with those permissions.
But when Windows gets installed, there's a myriad of different permission settings for different folders, and that's what I want to revert it back to. For example, the Windows folder doesn't inherit its permissions from the root, and each user has their own unique permissions.
It would be too much work to do it manually, so is there a way I can use icacls for this, and actually get it to reset to the real default?