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Messed up AppData Ownership; Can't Install Anything
All right guys, Im gonna break down the situation for you. It goes like this:
I installed the Take Ownership registry tweak. I don't ever use it because I don't ever need to, it just seemed like it would come in handy when I downloaded it. But anyways, now it appears on the context menu. More on this in a moment.
I also set up EFS on my system so that I could encrypt some files, because my motherboard doesn't have a TPM chip, so I can't do the whole hard drive. But anyways, now there is an entry on the context menu that says Encrypt. Handy, right?
So, funny story/true story, I impulsively decided it would be a good idea to encrypt everything in my user folder (C:\Users\User_Folder"). I right clicked the folder and hit Encrypt (in my mind) and simultaneously right clicked the folder and hit Take Ownership (in real life). I'm not sure this is the worst "user error" I've been guilty of, but it's up there.
So once I realized that "I don't remember a cmd window with a flurry of text during the encryption process", I combined that with the observation that "this folders' text is not turning green", and then I started looking in the cmd window to catch what it was saying (casually - no hurry, right?). Once I saw what it was doing I stopped it of course, but I really didnt think it would be an issue, after all, Im pretty sure everything in the libraries and downloads folder etc is already owned by the user account whose folder they are in.
But I forgot about the hidden AppData folder...
Which contains the Temp folder...
And now when I go to install software, they cant access the extracted .msi's in the temp folder and exit with an error message every time, saying that it cant access the file in Temp\Whatever. I have been unable to find the default ownership permissions of the folder, nor do I know how to restore them. I really don't have anything monumental to install but I figure sooner or later it will really start to get to me. Plus, my knowledge of Windows is not that impressive, and I wonder if this tid-bit of awesome-sauce might cause other problems or instabilities etc. So once again, I appeal to the Gurus at SevenForums!
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Any other specs you need, just let me know. TIA.