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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.

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

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.'

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?

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

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.

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