What are the security settings on your Documents and Settings folder?

[eviuk]

I removed the Deny permissions for hidden folder C:Documents And Settings so that I could look inside the folder (because I’m really nosy!). Now I can’t remember what the Deny settings were before I unticked the boxes. Could anyone with Windows 7 Starter who is the Administrator of their machine and who is not an inveterate twiddler please have a peek by right clicking on the folder, going to Properties. On the Security tab click Advanced, on the Permissions tab click Continue, Click on the Deny settings. then click Edit. Which boxes are ticked in the Deny and Allow columns? (Cancel your way out of the boxes when when you’ve finished) Thanks

[Fred232]

Deny property:

name – everyone. (typo edit)

deny ticked – list folder / read data
allow ticked column – nothing

I had a job finding it as I was hiding my system folders and it didn’t show up, yet it was shown in ‘dir /ah’ command.

Its not a folder, its a link to users.

Hope thats the bit you wanted.

[eviuk]

That’s the one, Fred. Thanks lots. I don’t like having files on my PC which I can’t look inside otherwise I wouldn’t have prodded but I really should have noted the exact settings. After MS’s shenanegans with ‘Windows Genuine Advantage’ (see the Wiki page) I try to prevent MS having more control over my computer than I have.

[eviuk]

Whoops! I don’t have evryone on my list of users, only System and Administrators. Do these 2 groups have the same permissions? I suspect I’d better put the folder back exactly as it was before (if I can)

[Fred232]

this is what I did, just to confirm its what you required:

1 start menu – accessories – windows explorer, right-click and run as admin.
2 organise – folder and search options – in the folder options – view tab,
3 tick show hidden files and folders, and untick hide protected operating system files (I normally leave these hidden).
4 click the C: in explorer and right click the ‘Doscuments and settings’ shortcut/link, properties and security tab.

On this tab, the ‘group or usernames’ shown are:
Everyone
SYSTEM
Administrators (my pc details)

Click Advanced, double click Deny, and the name shown is Everyone.

Quote:

on the Permissions tab click Continue, Click on the Deny settings.

I double clicked deny as I couldn’t see

Indeed, in the permission table (after clicking advanced) it shows:

Deny – Everyone – etc
Allow – Everyone – etc
Allow – System – etc
Allow – Administrators (my pc details) – etc

as the choices (I double clicked deny) There is no Deny for system or Administrators that I could see.

Now, if I look at my folder users/ (i.e. user for my account) in the security tab, Everyone is not shown. Whats listed is:

SYSTEM

Administrators

But if I look at the users folder itself, EVERYONE is shown

EVERYONE
SYSTEM
Administrators
Users

Are you the only user account on the system?
My PC has two, an Admin account which I hardly use, and a user account (mine).

If you are running from one account, maybe thats why Everyone isn’t shown? Im no security expert, Dunno for sure – just guessing.

[eviuk]

I bet you’re right, Fred. It’s just that the folder has lost its Lock icon but hopefully it won’t matter too much 🙂 And if it does, I’ll be able to check out if the F4 feature really works.

[Fred232]

I stumbled across this link – http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm which is for Vista but I would think is the similar for W7 if not the same. See the ‘Access Denied’ bit.

to be honest, didnt really fully understand it, but it may give some pointers.

Hope it helps

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