Bogus SID hanging around

[Dave Rountree]

Recently I tried to manually run a scheduled task by
right-clicking the task and hitting run. However,
nothing happens. When I double-click the task, the
following message comes up:

General page initiation failed.
The specific error is:
0x80070534. No mapping between account names and
security IDs was done.

Looking around at various files' & folders' security
tabs, I can see an SID without an associated user. I
suspect this was left over from when my user profile got
corrupted, and I had to create accounts, transfer files,
delete accounts, etc. The problem is, this SID appears
to be all over the place, likely on several thousands of
objects security descriptors. How can I get rid of it
and get my security setup back to normal? I've already
tried the procedure in Q247482 without success.

Windows XP Pro on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with 256 MB RAM,
40 GB hard drive, 2.0 GHz Pentium 4, all this taking
place with my personal administrator-level account.

Dave

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

If this really is a left-over account SID it shouldn't be "all over the
place" but restricted to your Documents and Settings folder, in
particular the All Users profile.

From the security tab, you can propagate the All Users owner down the
tree and replace permission entries on all child objects. That should
just about do it.

 

[David Rountree]

Mr. England,

First, thanks for the free advice. I appreciate you taking
time to address this.

However, I've found the left-over SID on the security tab
of files in the root of the C drive. Also, would the left-
over SID cause the error in the scheduled tasks folder if
it were restricted to the Documents and Settings folder??
Are those two problems even related, in your estimation?

Finally, while I'm going over my problems, I have another,
(apparently) unrelated problem. I have my power savings
settings set to not allow the computer to hibernate or go
on standby when it is plugged in. Recently, however, it
has begun to do this anyway.

I'm thinking about reinstalling the disc image that our
company uses for this model laptop, although I would
prefer to sort out the problems first. Again, any advice
you can give would be appreciated.

Regards,

David Rountree