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>Hi! FluffyBunny, welcome to 7F
Anak, many thanks for your reply! Now that I have some time to work on
this again, I hope to finally get these issues resolved.
>I am not an expert, by any means, but this should help give you full access.
- Start Windows7 in safe mode (Turn on/re-boot, and tap F8 till windows menu come up).
- Select safe mode.
- Once started open windows explorer right click C:/ drive, properties. Then select Security tab.
>In Group or user names, select each one (at a time) then Edit. You have to have the SYSTEM group listed.
- Click each box under Allow so that there is a check mark in each box.
- Go to advanced, Then the Owner tab, change from Administrators (your user name\Administrators) (what ever it's called) to your login name by using edit.
- Then shut down and re-start in normal mode.
>This should give you full control over your machine, and calm you down to where you can think straight again.
Okay, I did the above steps. But when I first tried to change ownership,
I got error dialogs again. Strangely, after the error dialogs went away, the change
was apparently still applied. I don't know what to make of that, but what I
ended up doing for each group was to change its owner from "Trusted Installer"
to that of my "admin" account.
>This is where I am not sure how this will turn out because I only have one drive.
PANIC TIME AGAIN!
>Now in order to have permission to access the E:\ drive or whatever drive you would like to access; you would go to the respective Drives properties >Security tab.
>Your users should be listed, then edit each one as you did for the C:\ drive. If they are not, then we will have to create them.
>You can always go back to any of your Drive's properties >Security tab >Edit Group or user names, and remove/un-check any allow boxes to restrict permissions.
I also tried doing some changes on the E: drive, and I was able to change the
owner of E: for each group from "SYSTEM" to my "admin" account. I note
that for both sets of changes, I had logged into the "admin" account,
which is of course an account with administrator permissions. I don't
know whether this was really necessary, but it looks like I have proper
control of my system again, so that is progress.
>Since you have Home Premium this tutorial may only work with method 2 or 3. Drive Access - Restrict or Unrestrict in Vista, and Windows 7- Vista Forums
>There are these two also:
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...-accounts.html
User Accounts - Add or Remove from Groups
>I did not want to throw too much at you, but we may have to get into sharing theses Drives.
Yes, my head is spinning almost as fast as my hard drive from all the
reading I've been doing about Windows' permission system. I'm
still unclear about a lot of things, such as the concept of a restricted
drive. And I'm not sure just what permissions I should really set.
Just to be clear on what I'm trying to do, I want to make sure that
the folders on drives C: and E: have their permissions set such that
only the account owner (and those with administrator privileges) can
do anything with those files. I can live with other users being able to
see that files exist, but I don't want them able to see the _contents_ of
the files or be able to modify them.
I'm not clear on what happens if I deny a privilege to the Users or
Authenticated users group. Does that mean that the privilege is
denied to every member of the group EXCEPT the owner of the
account (which is what I would hope)? Or does it even deny
access to my own account? Am I correct in assuming that
members of the Administrator and SYSTEM groups should
always have all permissions (except for the special permissions
that aren't normally checked)? These are issues that the
documentation doesn't make very clear, so I will be grateful
for any insights that you or others can provide.