Restoring Administrator Permissions

[Artician]

If someone removed all permissions to access a directory for the main Administrator account on WinXP Pro, how would those permissions be restored?

Thanks for any help, I thought it would be best to ask a forum before up and reinstalling the whole OS, which was the only other thing I could think of, and I'm not even certain it would work. I can't believe Windows will actually allow that in the first place.

 

[RebateMonger]

Log on as Local Administrator.
Take Ownership of the folder.
Set the Security Permissions to match other, similar, folders. Typically, those include rights for Administrator, Creator Owner, and System.

 

[MSCoder610]

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=308421

 

[Artician]

Thank you guys so much. I was completely lost and I must of searched the microsoft support site for sometime with no trace of a resolution. Sometimes it seems like you have to know the solution to a problem before you're able to find it in their knowledge base.

Thank you again.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Artician
...Sometimes it seems like you have to know the solution to a problem before you're able to find it in their knowledge base...

LOL. I"ve noticed the same thing....Glad you got the problem solved.