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Protection of folders



 
 
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Old September 8th 07, 06:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
ThosRTanner
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Default Protection of folders

Not sure this is the correct newsgroup, but hopefully... I have a slight
issue on my vista PC with the hard disk - but I am a bit short of space on
the C drive and have started installing stuff on the D drive. I created a
"Program Files" folder on the D drive to be tidy and started installing stuff
in there. However, the protection on this folder isn't the same as the
"Program Files" on the C drive - I can go in there and create files willy
nilly, which is really not what I want. Is there anything I can do so that it
behaves more like the "real" program files, and leaves the folder secure (and
does that wizzy virtualisation thing when programs attempt to write / read
from it).

Thanks
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Old September 8th 07, 11:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
P. Di Stolfo
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Default Protection of folders

Hello,

right-click your original Program Files folder and click Properties. Go to
tab Security, and see which users have which permission. Now, right-click
D:\Program Files - Properties - tab "Security", and add/remove users and
change their permissions so that they match the permissions in the old
folder.

Hope this will help.
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo
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...
Not sure this is the correct newsgroup, but hopefully... I have a slight
issue on my vista PC with the hard disk - but I am a bit short of space
on
the C drive and have started installing stuff on the D drive. I created a
"Program Files" folder on the D drive to be tidy and started installing
stuff
in there. However, the protection on this folder isn't the same as the
"Program Files" on the C drive - I can go in there and create files willy
nilly, which is really not what I want. Is there anything I can do so that
it
behaves more like the "real" program files, and leaves the folder secure
(and
does that wizzy virtualisation thing when programs attempt to write / read
from it).

Thanks


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Old September 9th 07, 05:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
ThosRTanner
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Default Protection of folders



"P. Di Stolfo" wrote:

Hello,

right-click your original Program Files folder and click Properties. Go to
tab Security, and see which users have which permission. Now, right-click
D:\Program Files - Properties - tab "Security", and add/remove users and
change their permissions so that they match the permissions in the old
folder.
Unfortunately, Program Files has some very strange permissions - several special users with only "Special Permissions" and a non-existant user called "Trusted Installer"

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Old September 9th 07, 07:02 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
ThosRTanner
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Default Protection of folders

After further fiddling, I got the folder protection to turn on/off, but the
virtualisation isn't happening. Is it possible that only happens on the C
drive?
 




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