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    Can someone give me a complete list of what their default file permissions are on Vista's OS partition?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Greg, Aug 4, 2008.

  1. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I'm having a few issues on my PC and I think it is because I fubared the permissions on my 'C' drive. Can someone go into the partition's properties and post a full listing of all the permissions?

    Could someone also post what permissions their 'C:\Windows\system32' folder has? And the permissions of msvicrt.dll? Thanks!
     
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    Under Vista:

    msvcirt.dll:
    For SYSTEM, Administrators and Users: "Read & execute" and "Read" are set to Allow.
    For TrustedInstaller: "Full Control", "Modify", "Read & execute", "Read" and "Write" are set to Allow

    system32:
    For CREATOR OWNER, SYSTEM and Administrators: Special permissions is grayed to Allow
    For Users: "Read & execute", "List folder contents" and "Read" are set to Allow
    For TrusedInstaller, Special Permissions is grayed to Allow and "List folder contents" is set to Allow

    C: Drive:
    For Authenticated Users, Special permissions is grayed to Allow
    For SYSTEM and Administrators, everything exept "Special permissions is set to Allow (special permissions is not allowed nor denied)
    For Users, "Read & execute", List folder contents and Read are set to Allow

    Next time, please do a system restore :)
     
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    Yeah, I turned that off a long time ago....

    I have an OS backup image that I think would solve it...but I would rather know what the problem is and fix it so that I learn for future reference.

    Thank you!

    UPDATE: Yeah, special permissions is unchecked for the C: drive and everything in it for Authenticated Users. I'm guessing that is EXACTLY the problem. I'll be doing a OS reimage tomorrow to see if that helps...I checked the backup and the permissions in that snapshot are exactly what you say they should be.

    THANK YOU!
     
    Greg, Aug 5, 2008
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    For future ref... apparently the "icacls" command can save and restore file permissions.
    icacls /? for info.
    From the "icacls /?" output:

    Of course restoring permissions this way requires that you save the permissions first... but you may want to do that after you reimage your disk in case you want to mess with them again. btw you'll probably need to run this from an Administrator command prompt if doing it for the Windows directory.
     
    swarmer, Aug 5, 2008
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