Changing file permissions in WinXP Home without Safe Mode

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Say, is there any freeware that will allow a standard administrative account
to take ownership of files in Windows XP Home without having to boot into
Safe Mode? I have a portable hard drive and I've tired of having to reboot
into safe mode to set all files' permissions to Everyone/Full Control before
I can access the files on other computers. Many thanks.
 
J44xm said:
Say, is there any freeware that will allow a standard administrative
account to take ownership of files in Windows XP Home without having
to boot into Safe Mode? I have a portable hard drive and I've tired
of having to reboot into safe mode to set all files' permissions to
Everyone/Full Control before I can access the files on other
computers. Many thanks.
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I have a portable USB thumb drive and don't have to do that. What
makes a hard drive different?
 
Say, is there any freeware that will allow a standard
administrative account to take ownership of files in Windows XP
Home without having to boot into Safe Mode? I have a portable hard
drive and I've tired of having to reboot into safe mode to set all
files' permissions to Everyone/Full Control before I can access
the files on other computers. Many thanks.
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Microsoft makes a cmd line tool called xcacls which does it. It's
one of the Win2K resource kit utilities they give away for free, but
it works with WinXP.

<http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/xcacls-o.asp>

I should warn you to be careful with it, though. I typoed one of the
parameters for it once and accidentally set permissions on a folder
so that not even the system could access it.
 
J44xm said:
Say, is there any freeware that will allow a standard administrative
account
to take ownership of files in Windows XP Home without having to boot into
Safe Mode? I have a portable hard drive and I've tired of having to reboot
into safe mode to set all files' permissions to Everyone/Full Control
before
I can access the files on other computers. Many thanks.
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pasted from a long page at,
http://www.scottxp.com/winxp.php

(RECOMMENDED METHOD)
This is the method of choice for setting user security permission in Windows
XP Home. It is very easy to install and will bring back the Security tab in
Normal mode.
1.) Download the NT 4 Security Configuration Manager from
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/scm/default.asp.

2.) Run the scesp4i.exe file and extract all files to a temporary directory.
3.) Right-click on the setup.inf file and choose the install option.
4.) Answer no if asked to overwrite essent.dll.

You will now be able to access the Security tab as shown above.
 
["badgolferman"; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:46:39 GMT]
I have a portable USB thumb drive and don't have to do that. What
makes a hard drive different?
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That's what I'd like to know. My drive is NTFS and I would suspect your USB
drive is FAT -- would that make a difference, anyone?
 
["»Q?; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:09:33 GMT]
I should warn you to be careful with it, though. I typoed one of the
parameters for it once and accidentally set permissions on a folder
so that not even the system could access it.
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Yeee. Thanks for the pointer. My question, now, is which settings I should
use to give full control to any user. I tried "/g Everyone:F" but that
didn't work, to my surprise. Any ideas.
 
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[about xcacls]
Yeee. Thanks for the pointer. My question, now, is which settings
I should use to give full control to any user. I tried "/g
Everyone:F" but that didn't work, to my surprise. Any ideas.
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Sorry, I dunno. It's been a long time since I used it, and I forget
stuff like that. Maybe folks in a Microsoft group could help, if no
one else here can tell you.
 
J44xm said:
["bud"; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:42:47 GMT]
1.) Download the NT 4 Security Configuration Manager from
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/scm/default.a
sp.
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Thanks, but upon trying to install it, I was told that I needed Windows
2000
with SP4 installed; thus, installation failed.
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Then you must have tried to install it by clicking on the mssce.exe file.
That's not what the directions say to do. You right click on the setup.inf
file and pick install. That's all.
 
["bud"; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:18:33 GMT]
Then you must have tried to install it by clicking on the mssce.exe file.
That's not what the directions say to do. You right click on the setup.inf
file and pick install. That's all.
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Urk, I'm sorry. Upon actually following your instructions, things are
working perfectly. Thank you very much!
 
On /dom 18 dic 2005 08:17:49p/, *J44xm* wrote:

[cacls]
which settings I should use to give full control to any user. I
tried "/g Everyone:F" but that didn't work, to my surprise. Any
ideas.
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Try:

net user Guest "password"
cacls d:\temp /G Everyone:F /E /T

Bye.
 
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