OT -'Access Denied' by XP Security - How to regain?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 6:37 am

Hi,

During the past year, working w WinXP, I've occasionally set some Security settings on some personal files. At that time my housemate and others used my pc too. Now I've lost access to some of them.

I'm getting a little lost in seurity settings. Could someone tell me what I need to do? Which Services need to be enabled? Do I take all 'Effective Permissions' or 'Take Ownership'? Can I login as 'me', being member of admins on my pc, or do I login as Administrator?

Please help me regaining acces to my files, which are quite essential to me -that's why I secured them.

at0m.

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 12:14 pm

If you have administrator priveleges you can take ownership of the files/folders and then change the security settings to how you want them.

if you lost your admin password there is a special free (linux on a boot floppy) tool to change any password on a NT/2K/XP machine.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 12:57 pm

Thanks. So I took ownership of everything with my personal login name, being member of Administrators.
And I gave Full Control to Everyone on every file.

Still, some (coloured names, for compressed files?) allow to set Security settings, but I can't open them. The text editor can't find the file, it asks for a disk and Mediaplayer says 'Access Denied - This file is currently in use. Close the file, and then try to perform the desired action again.'

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 1:11 pm

if they are colored it means the files are compressed, it could be the compression file has become corrupted.

are only the colored ones inaccesible?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 1:22 pm

I think so. I'm checking for some Service now...

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:52 pm

I can delete some of them now, before they were like unreacheable. But I can read the .txt's, nor play media files etc. MediaPlayer givers me 'file in use' error.

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 3:57 am

Hi atom,
there is a XP patch for NTFS. Have a look for Q315403.

Maybe.
(Explanation for newbies reading this: this is a number for searching in M$ Knowledgebase. So go M$ and do a search. In this case ntfs.sys will be replaced, that is the driver for the access of the NTFS filesystem)
Happy pulsaring
Micha