I can't change sharing after a restore

[BillyMac]

Hello Folks,

Newbie here, and as usual with these things, I have a problem and I hope someone here can help me.

I had a problem with my pc so I did a system restore. Since then my folders of pics etc are all light grey and are now ''share with nobody''.
I have admin rights and I have changed the ''swn'' to ''share with specific people'' and named myself and admin but the padlock is still there. It always defaults back to ''swn''.

I am logged in as admin, I have taken ownership, I have used a tweak to give me extended admin rights, but still it defaults back to the padlocked icon and no sharing.

Anyone got any ideas?

TIA

Billy.

 

[Jacee]

Have you scanned with an Anti-virus and Anti-Malware program?

 

[BillyMac]

Hi, and thanks for the reply. Yes I have run anti virus and anti malware (AVG, Advanced System Care and Adaware)

 

[BillyMac]

Anyone?

I'm still stuck here. It seems to be a permissions thing but I am reading a lot about a padlock bug in win7

 

[Jacee]

Are you running as Administrator? You will have to right click the folder or file with the padlock and choose to run as Administrator.

 

[BillyMac]

Hi, yes I'm running as admin, and I have also extended the admin privileges. If I do as you say the padlock still stays on the folder.
When I go into ''share with'' all the files say ''share with nobody'' I change it to homegroup or me as an individual, but as soon as I do it defaults back to padlocked, it means I can't post a pic or change a thing in these folders.

If I try to change any security settings I get the error message;

“an error occurred while applying security information to: C:\ Access is denied.”

This is even tho' I have supposedly got a full control admin account.

Really struggling to get to the bottom of this thing, any help is really appreciated.

 

[Jacee]

See this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

 

[BillyMac]

Hi, and thanks for the reply.

I've tried that tonight, and still no joy. I'm logged in as trustedinstaller and when I tried to change any security value I get a warning box saying ''an error occured while applying security information to C:\$recycle.bin Access is denied.''

I think it must be related,any ideas?

 

[seavixen32]

Have you tried booting into Safe Mode then change your permissions from there?

 

[BillyMac]

I tried to change permissions in safe made late last night but with no success.

I also downloaded TFC and Dr Web anti virus and ran both. TFC ran ok and deleted all the unnecessary temp files and then I ran Dr Web in safe mode with the latest definitions and found nothing.

Really getting frustrated now, anybody got any other ideas please?

 

[seavixen32]

I found this little snippet and don't know whether it's relevant to your problem, but I'll post it all the same:

"I thought I was having the same problem as other users here, but it seems the actual problem is simply terrible interface design. I now realise that the 'Share with' menu always shows a lock against the option 'Nobody', making it appear that the files are not shared even when they are.

Surely a tick should appear on this menu against the selected option, and the lock symbol should disappear when the files are no longer locked? If you look at the bottom of the screen, you can see that there is a message "State: Shared" once the files are shared, but this does not show the full state - that is, whether they are read only or read/write."

 

[BillyMac]

Thanks for that, it seems to clear up part of the issue. I am stil struggling here, I've just noticed that I cannot make a pic my wallpaper, on that I get the message

''This image cannot be set as wallpaper. An internal error occurred''

The image is a pic I took last week, and up til now I was able to do as I wanted with it. Now it is slightly greyed out in my pic folder and I can not edit or anything.

I checked the properties and the file hidden box was checked, I unchecked it and things were just the same.

How weird is this?

 

[seavixen32]

What file format are your pictures in?

What program do you use to open your pictures?

Clutching at straws now: go to Windows Explorer>Organize>Folder & Search Options>View>Files & Folders>Always Show Icons, Never Thumbnails>Apply>OK.

If that doesn't work you can just go back and click Restore Defaults.

 

[BillyMac]

Hi again,

My pics are jpg and I use Windows Photo Viewer to open them. I tried the clutch too but that did not work.

Another thing that has happened is that my favorites have disappeared. I can still see them greyed out in a folder on the c drive, but when in IE9 and click on favorites, none of my favorite sites there are.

I'm sure this is something to do with security, just wish I knew what!

Thanks again for your assistance.

 

[seavixen32]

It seems the only thing you can do now undo your system restore to try and put things back to where you started.