Permissions all messed up on folders within my profile on Windows 8.

Permissions all messed up on folders within my profile on Windows 8.

What is the simplest way to completely restore the default Windows 8 system security permissions within my user profile? I've tried a bunch of command lines, such as:

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

and yet I still can't seem to re-install SnagIt as it ways that it cannot create a directory in C:\Users\MichaelF\AppData .

HELP

August 14th, 2013 4:16pm

Hi,

Regarding current situation, I suggest we use following command to reset permission:

cd /d c:\[folders or files you would like to reset permission]

icacls * /T /Q /C /RESET

For detailed information about this command, you can refer to:

Icacls

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525.aspx

Hope these could be helpful.

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August 16th, 2013 5:40am

create or repair your profile. please check links below.

http://mywindows8.org/fix-corrupt-profile-in-windows-8/

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-SG/windows-vista/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-SG/windows7/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

August 16th, 2013 9:04am

Hi,

I tried running icacls * /T /Q /C /RESET in cmd as Admin.

The result was "Access is denied." for all the files there are permission issues with.

Any ideas?

Best, Martin

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June 1st, 2015 5:27am

download subinacl it's an old tool from Windows 2003 tool pack, but still works in newer version of Windows.
June 3rd, 2015 9:43pm

Hey there, I wanted to mention that I had an occurrence of this issue as well. Not sure what was causing it. On my father's standard user account, he lost access to various folders inside his user directory. I was going to go reset all the permissions when I found this thread.

In his case, the administrator's group still had permission to the folders. Since my dad's a standard user, I had to run the command prompt not just elevated, but truly "run as" an entire different account (which on his box is just called 'localadmin' as a local account I setup). Running this command from that account, against his user directory, seems to have patched it up.

So I guess my suggestion would be to see if any groups or accounts do have control over the set of folders, and then run your command session from that account.

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August 15th, 2015 11:15pm

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