How to Restore Default Folder/Drive Permissions

[Paul Thomas]

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?

 

[Joe Guidera]

Which drive? The boot drive or another drive.

Joe

 

[Paul Thomas]

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

 

[Joe Guidera]

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

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

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



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?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

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



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.