Solved Restore Ownership to Windows Sidebar

Hello Meltie,

I just check in Vista, and the default owner is "Trusted Installer" it and it's subfolders and files.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

okay - thanks
I'll go and try to return it's Ownership. May need you if I get stuck.
I'll check back when I've finished.

Hey Shawn,

Here's what happened.

Followed instructions:

At Step 4 I had to hit "edit" instead of "continue" - no biggee

At Step 8 I checked "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects". I did this because I had taken ownership of everything in that Directory.

Computer gave me an error message. Said something about Gadgets folder (access denied) and then another one with a long paragraph stating something like "won't allow as it would mess up consistency . . . " Wish I'd written that down DOH! Tried to recreate it but didn't get it and was afraid to mess with it further.

Anyway, it allowed me to continue.

At Step 11 it did show Owner as being "trusted installer"

At Step 12 - permissions did marry up to Tutorial (List folder contents and Special permissions were checked)

So, did I do this correctly? Do I need to do anything else or am I done? Are those 2 error messages a problem?

NOTE: The reason why I took Ownership of this in the first place was because I had another issue (which is resolved) where I ran an SFC scan. Scan said there were conflicts with my Sidebar. In order to correct those, I had to take Ownership. That seemed to go fine. When I went to try to change permissions back, that's when funny stuff started to happen and I felt it would be best to return Ownership of this item to it's original state.

Thanks for your help with this.

I'll wait to hear back from you.

Meltie

Meltie,

If your sidebar is working properly, then I would not worry about it.

Seems to be fine.

In retrospect, I should have left the darn thing alone in the first place, as I don't really use it. Everything I need is already on my tool bar!

Oh well, it was a good learning experience. Painful, but of value

Thanks again for all your help

Meltie

Re: RESOLVED Restore Ownership to Windows Sidebar

Issue is resolved

meltie said:

seems to be fine.

In retrospect, i should have left the darn thing alone in the first place, as i don't really use it. Everything i need is already on my tool bar!

Oh well, it was a good learning experience. Painful, but of value

thanks again for all your help

meltie

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That's great news Meltie. I'm happy to hear that all is working ok.