Vista - How to Restore Default Folder/Drive Permissions

I've just finished a clean install of Vista but one of my drives
permissions are messed up. I was able to add my account so I can
access all the files on the drive but just to be safe I would like to
restore the default permissions to that drive.

Is there a way to do this?

Which drive? The boot drive or another drive.

Joe

"Paul Thomas" <MrPaulAR@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178411799.070482.108440@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> I've just finished a clean install of Vista but one of my drives
> permissions are messed up. I was able to add my account so I can
> access all the files on the drive but just to be safe I would like to
> restore the default permissions to that drive.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>

This would be another drive (E. Only data is on here....no
programs, OS, etc. Just don't want to reformat.
Paul

On May 5, 10:57 pm, "Joe Guidera" <jguid...@remove.msn.com> wrote:
> Which drive? The boot drive or another drive.
>
> Joe
>
> "Paul Thomas" <MrPau...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1178411799.070482.108440@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I've just finished a clean install of Vista but one of my drives
> > permissions are messed up. I was able to add my account so I can
> > access all the files on the drive but just to be safe I would like to
> > restore the default permissions to that drive.
>
> > Is there a way to do this?

Try the following good old fashioned defaults
(and check the box to replace permissions on child objects)

Authenticated users
Modify
Read/Execute
List contents
Read
Write

System
Full control

Administrators
Full control

Users
Read & Execute
List folder contents
Read


If you want the more restrictive set of permissions (generally for your boot
drive)
Authenticated Users
Special permissions
Traverse
List folders /read data
Read attributes
Read extended attributes
Create files / write data
Create folders / append data
Write attributes
Write extended attributes
Delete
Read permissions

Users
Read & Execute
List folder contents
Read

Administrators
Full control

System
Full Control

Cheers,
Joe

"Paul Thomas" <MrPaulAR@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178542931.114470.144050@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> This would be another drive (E. Only data is on here....no
> programs, OS, etc. Just don't want to reformat.
> Paul
>
> On May 5, 10:57 pm, "Joe Guidera" <jguid...@remove.msn.com> wrote:
>> Which drive? The boot drive or another drive.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> "Paul Thomas" <MrPau...@gmail.com> wrote in
>> messagenews:1178411799.070482.108440@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > I've just finished a clean install of Vista but one of my drives
>> > permissions are messed up. I was able to add my account so I can
>> > access all the files on the drive but just to be safe I would like to
>> > restore the default permissions to that drive.
>>
>> > Is there a way to do this?
>
>

I have similar problem,permissions got messed up for c:windows\system32
Is there a way to restore it to default permissions as when the system was installed?

Hi larsendata,

Please post a detailed description about the problem you're facing. Are you trying to write to the System32 folder, and receiving an error?

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"larsendata" <larsendata.2s2x6y@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:larsendata.2s2x6y@no-mx.forums.net...

I have similar problem,permissions got messed up for c:windows\system32
Is there a way to restore it to default permissions as when the system
was installed?



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larsendata

The problem was that the system32 folder and everything under it got messed up by a familymember so i tryed to set it up as it was before by looking in another pc.
Coudn´t start several system programs and eventlog was one of them.
I´v fixed that one,didn´t have right permissions in the folder \win32\winevt.
But for future problems like this is there quick way to set permissions on for example c:\windows and c:\windows\system32 ?.
A quick way to restor it to default.

There is a default security template which can be applied, but it resets all the registry permissions, security for system files/folders to defaults.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"larsendata" <larsendata.2s49t3@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:larsendata.2s49t3@no-mx.forums.net...

The problem was that the system32 folder and everything under it got
messed up by a familymember so i tryed to set it up as it was before by
looking in another pc.
Coudn´t start several system programs and eventlog was one of them.
I´v fixed that one,didn´t have right permissions in the folder
\win32\winevt.
But for future problems like this is there quick way to set permissions
on for example c:\windows and c:\windows\system32 ?.
A quick way to restor it to default.


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larsendata