Authorizations / Permissions issue in Win7 64bits.

Hello,

I have installed a fresh copy of Win7 Home Premium 64bits on a newly formated SSD.

The user account is registered as "administrator" and I have selected the lowest level in the UAC settings.

Now, when I select the properties of my C: drive (where Win7 is installed) and try to untick the "indexing files" case, I git a message saying that i don't have the authorization to access some of the files such as c:/boot.ini .....

Then I click "skip" and the case becomes eventually unticked.

However, I suspect that there is some kind of authorization/administration issue on my computer.... In the drive security tab, I tried to apply all permissions to all user and once again, i got this message telling me that I did not have the access to do so....

I don't understand what's going on since there is only one user account on the computer and it appears as administrator....

My system is a fresh installed so I don't have any other program but Win7 installed at the moment.

Thank you for helping,
Greg

Dear Logicearth,

Thank you for your nice and helpful answer.

The fact that I am not able to get full permissions on my files when I am the PC administrator IS an issue.

I have tried to instal GPedit.msc in the registry to access the Security Group Policy (because it is not visible in the Home Premium edition) but when I click the .bat file, i got a message saying that I am not authorized to access the registry....


thank you

cassis said:

The fact that I am not able to get full permissions on my files when I am the PC administrator IS an issue.

No, it isn't an issue. It's set that way by design to keep you and malware from messing up the system. Given, that, if you are having issues with the registry, it is likely you messed up your system permissions in your tinkering, and you might be looking at a reinstall to fix them.

Part of running a new OS is understanding why you are running that OS and how it is different than previous ones. You wouldn't buy a new car only to discover later on that it is a manual transmission, would you?

Ok for example, when I click on Documents, I see in the right columns "Video, images, etc."... all these folders have a lock and when I click on them, it says I'm not authorized to open them...
BUT, if I click directly on the Video or Images shortcut in the left columns of the explorer, I can access the files...

That's because those are symlinks to folders on other areas of the disk. It has nothing to do with security levels or access. Windows 7 does things differently than XP and the folders you might expect to see and access in certain places have changed. I'd suggest you read up on the tutorials on the site here describing how things differ. In particular, in this case, I'd research Windows 7 Libraries.

Thank you.

I have read how to modify the permissions and especially tick the "include inherited authorizations...." case.

Now all locks are gone.

Greg

May I ask what benefit removing all of the locks on the folders has provided you? As it stands, I'm not sure having all the locks gone is accomplishing anything positive for security. You certainly aren't the first poster on the forum here to ask how to get rid of the locks on all the folders as most users new to Windows 7 don't understand why they are there. However, of all of those threads to date, I'm not sure anyone has provided any reason as to how that would be a benefit. In fact, most have just taken the time to better understand how the new file arrangements work, upon which it has alleviated whatever issue they thought they had in the first place.