Security tab on drives
Can anyone help please. My brother was mucking about with the security tabs on my computer on each of the drives. He messed about with the permissions and now the security tab has disappeared. I am running vista ultimate and have tried using regit and gpedit to change the settings but none of it works. Any ideas ????
October 20th, 2010 1:58pm

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums. Will the security tab appear to other file other that drivers? Please try files on other partition as a test. Please make sure it is NTFS format Filesystem and you logged on as Administrator. I suggest disable your antivirus software or test in new account to check the result Regards,Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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October 27th, 2010 5:46am

HELLO. Have you tried to do a system restore yet? You will need to be the administrator, or at least a user with that level of priviledges. Start Menu<All Programs<Accessories<System Tools<<SYSTEM RESTORE. Choose an older poimt, from before when the problem occurred, and try that first. I'll assume (if that doesn't work, ) that you are familiar with the MMC, from the comment on the group policy editing. You would need to open the MMC in AUTHOR MODE, which you can do by either typing "mmc /a" (without the "quote" marks!) at the "run..." entry of the start menu, or right-clicking on an empty portion of the taskbar, choosing "Task Manager", and entering it into the "new task" listing on the first (application) tab. If your usual console does not open up, click on the "file" header, and choose to add snapin(s). Add the "security configuration and analysis" snap-in, the "security templates" snap-in, and the "services" snap in. Click apply, click okay, and you will see those entries in a new console you've authored. Click the file header again, and choose to save the console as (the default is console 1.msc-but you don't want to overwrite the default console, so modify the name such as "console new.msc"), and click okay. In the console you've just AUTHORED, click once on the "security comfig and analysis" item. A menu will appear im the right panel of the console, with the item "open a database". Right click the security config and analysis item, and choose "open database." This will show you the default, "secedit.sdb". Select that, and click open. NOW, WHEN YOU RIGHT CLICK THE SECURITY ANALYSIS AND CONFIGURATION ITEM, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR CHOICE OF THE WHOLE MENU. Click on "Configure computer now", type the name you want for the log file it will be making, and click okay. When the configuration is done, your computer will have been reset to the defaults it had when Vista was first set up, Unless your brother was editing the templates and saved his changes to the original one, which is not highly likely...If he did, the symptoms will remain, and you will have to repost here so we can get around that if it is a problem then. (But I doubt it, seriously...) Please at least return to mark this post as an answer if it has the info you needed to solve your problem, so others may be able to find it as an answer to their troubles, also ! "While there is NO SUCH THING as a WRONG QUESTION, the EASIEST THING TO GET in the world is a WRONG ANSWER!" 15 years of hands-on-how-to; I "DO" WINDOWS !!!
October 27th, 2010 9:33am

Hi, As the issue can be related to permission, I suggest you run the following tool and see the result: http://cid-4fc3e8fc77f77286.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Reset%5E_subinacl.zip 1. Save the file to your desktop. 2. Right click the Reset_subinacl.ZIP file and choose Extract. 3. Follow the instructions and there will be two files (reset.cmd and subinacl.exe). 4. Double click the reset.cmd file. 5. You will see a DOS-like window processing. (NOTE: It may take several minutes, please be patient. When it is finished, you will be prompted that "Finished, press any key to continue") Regards,Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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October 29th, 2010 2:47am

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