restoring a backup in XP

[Oscar1613]

long story short, i backed up my documents and settings (along with some other stuff) last night and reinstalled windows XP. well, at the time i had the option to keep the documents folder private (so other users cant screw with my files) so when i restore the backups on the fresh install of windows, it wont let me access my own documents... i kept the same user name and password and it still says access denied. is there any way to get around this or are my documents and files gone?

 

[lowtech1]

Ha.ha......Login as administrator, then take add your new_user to the directory. You may need to take ownership of the directory/files in question as well.

 

[Oscar1613]

um... say what?😕

 

[lowtech1]

Log into Windows with an administrative account (full access to everything), then right click the folder that you want to have access to & add the admin_use or any users that you want to alow access to it. You may need to take ownership of that folder aswell.

Use Windows help & read upon administrator account & permission.

 

[Oscar1613]

i dont see anything that says anything like what you're talking about 🙁

 

[Oscar1613]

DOH!

to answer my own question... theres an option in the restore part of the Backup program "Restore security settings." I just disabled that and everythings fine now 🙂

 

[Saltin]

Log into Windows with an administrative account (full access to everything), then right click the folder that you want to have access to & add the admin_use or any users that you want to alow access to it. You may need to take ownership of that folder aswell.

Lowtech probably doesnt realize that you havent disabled simple file sharing.

Tools>Folder Options>View>Clear the Simple file sharing box.

This allows you to see the security tab on file/folder properties. That's where you manage the Access Control List (ACL) of said file/folder.

It is entirely beyond me why MS decided to enable this option by default.

 

[Oscar1613]

i eventually figured that one out too, but thanks anyway, Saltin.

however i ran into a new problem... when i was backing up, i also forgot about a folder i was testing encryption on... (guess i shouldnt have tested it on something important 😱) now, if i understand this encryption system correctly, it issues a certificate and key to the user that encrypts the file. i found some folders in the backed up documents and settings folder that are named certificates. is this where the encryption certificates and keys are stored? can i just restore some of these files and regain control over the encrypted files? or is this a lost cause?