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Thanks for the heads up. What add blocker do you recommend that will work with Chromium? I just went to that add blocker test site and got a 52/100. That's still not good.

It's one of the things i hate. almost every download site wants to download and install some download helper app or something. It wasn't always that way. i remember when you could just download the file and be done with it. I'm using Supermium (Chrome) and i thought add blocking was built in. isn't it?

the reason it requires .net 4 is that helge was transitioning from win32 to .net coding. version 2.1.3 is win32 and supports xp. version 3 is all .net but has a bug problem with the os so it doesn't work on xp

No problems. Is there some other way to transfer that file over? Thanks. I downloaded 2 files because I thought after that it would let me proceed to what I was really after but I know better than to install anything that doesn't look right. So I deleted them. There was no other download button other than that green one.

Yes. The SetACL suite I downloaded does. When I clicked on it to install it I got the message that .net Framework 4.0 needs to be installed first. Can't tell you the version because it didn't install. but this is the date on the certificate: Monday May 27, 2013 10:21:06 AM So i would expect that it was the version that was released on or near that date.

Thanks. Sorry for delayed reply. I've been dealing with a sewer backup into my basement from all the rain we've had here both Saturday and Sunday. Anyway, Do I need to register to download the file? The website wants to install something that is not SetACL. So just for the heck of it I followed it thru and it first downloaded a free VPN, app then something else which I downloaded just to get past all the hurdles but it wouldn't go any farther. The files were 19MB. I know SetACL isn't that big. Here's what it was : Application Application Handsome 19.0 MB (19,957,832 bytes) So that;s why I ask if I have to register to download the real deal without all that other stuff.

Sounds like you did everything I did too. Everything just lead to a dead end. But thanks for trying.

The SetACL Suite at that link requires .net framework 4.0 to be installed. i was hoping to pull the standalone executable out with WinRAR but it's an MSI. The standalone version I was looking for doesn't require .net framework installed. So I guess I may have to install .net 4 just to use it for this project. I can always uninstall it when I'm done. You're probably right but I have no experience writing scripts.

Yeah it did! That's the same thing I got when I went to the Wayback Machine. It just dead-ended there. I checked every Google search result and couldn't find a link to it. Usually I can find what I'm looking for. And usually someone here knows where to find it or has it and makes it available. I just went to the link you provided and downloaded it. Hopefully the specific command I need to use is in that version. What I need to do is change the "OWNER" field of every occurance of an orphaned SID in the "OWNER" field to the Administrator account. Subinacl can't do that. It can't target just the "OWNER" field based on the orphaned SID and replace it with the Administrator account. What I need is something that can do this logic: Look at the "OWNER" field of every file/folder If the field contains an orphaned SID then replace the orphaned SID with the Administrator account Endif I want to avoid replacing the "OWNER" if it's owned by "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" That's what Subinacl can't do but SetACL can. I'm also going to contact Helge and see if he can make available the version 2.1.3.for me. Thanks for the help.

Anyone know where I can download the zip file for SetACL 2.1.3? i downloaded the version 3.0 zip which doesn't work on XP. Something about a bug in the OS check. It was the only one I could find. Everything else Googles AI suggested dead ended. You'd think somewhere out there is an archived copy.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

I found some orphaned SIDs' in my xp pro system and I'd like to get rid of them. Using acceschk if found that some of them are the owners of some files/folders. Is there a way to use SetACL to locate the invalid (orphaned) SID as the "OWNER" and replace it with the Administrator account. I know I can use subinacl to delete all the occurances of the orphaned SID with the cleandeletedsidsfrom= command but this will also remove them from the "OWNER" field as well and will leave the file/folder with no owner. That might cause problems so I would like to avoid that. This is the logic of the command I would like to do: Look at the "OWNER" field in every file/folder If the "OWNER" field contains the orphaned SID Then Replace it with the Administrator account Endif Can this be done with SetACL? If so could you provide the proper syntax for the command? This is the command that Google's AI gave me but it doesn't look right: SetACL -on "D:\Program Files" -ot file -actn setowner -ownr "n:S-1-5-21-299502267-113007714-1177238915-1004;s:y" -rec cont_obj .-on: The object name (your path) .-ot: Object type (file/directory) .-actn setowner: Targets only the owner field .-ownr: The "n:" denotes the new owner (or you can use "n:Administrators") .-rec cont_obj: Recursively applies this to files and subfolders. I don't see where it's replacing the orphaned SID with the Administrator account. It looks more like a global replace of all "OWNERS" with the orphaned SID or the administrator account. That's not what I want since that will also replace "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" on files that are rightfully owned by the system.

OK. Got it to work. But it also installed IE7 and WMP11. Wasn't sure if it would do that during a repair install. So I've downloaded nLite and .net framework 2.0 (only had 1 and 1.1 installed and nLite requires 2.0) so I can eliminate the installation of IE7 and WMP11. When I've created that custom XP Media Center Edition 2005 installation disk I will do this again. It really wasn't that hard and MS winPE was what really helped by allowing me to change the HKLM\System|WPA reg key by importing the WPA reg key from the clean install I did on a spare HDD. Of course there were some other modifications done as well to HKLM\Local Machine\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion and HKLM\Local Machine\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion and copying the medctroc.inf over. Thanks to License Crawler for that.

Sorry. Everything I see on the web says there never was a retail version of MCE. Is there a way to trick the install disk into thinking MCE is already installed and then do a repair from the setup disk via the repair option?

Does anyone know if there's an upgrade version of MCE 2005 out there? I have a version of MCE 2005 that I tried to use to upgrade my XP Pro but it didn't offer the option to upgrade. I was doing this the normal way by putting in the install disk and then rebooting the computer which takes you into the blue screen setup. I also tried it by putting the disk in after I had already booted into XP and then clicking on Setup in the root folder of the MCE 2005 disk and selecting install Windows XP from the Welcome to Setup screen. The first message I got was "The option to upgrade will not be available at this time because Setup was unable to load the file F:\WINNTUPG\NETUPGRD.DLL" (F: is the name of the CD drive the disk was in). I looked at the folders on the disk and yep, there wasn't any folder named \WINNTUPG. When I was doing it the normal way and got to the agree to the EULA screen, I scrolled down to the bottom where I got a valuable piece of information. Don't know if this is the version number of the disk or the EULA but here it is: MCE_05_RTM_OEM_EN. I'm assuming that the "OEM" part means it's the OEM version and I suppose that the upgrade option wasn't offered on that version since the OEM wouldn't be upgrading, they would be doing fresh installs. So is there a retail version available for downloading out there? I want to upgrade my XP Pro SP3 version to MCE without losing any of my apps or their registry entries. And will I need to temporarily remove SP3 in order to upgrade?