[Help] How to remove all references of older creator/owner

[psychedelic_fur]

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is a way to completely remove all reference to the old cretor/owner. The scenario is something like this.

You have repaired your windows installation, which will create new user, alluser etc folders in "documents and settings" folder even if you give the same user during installation (XP Pro and probably other windows nt versions append something or the other like "username.compute name" or "username_string" etc..) anyways back to the issue. The issue is that before you have repaired your windows installation you might have created lots of files and directory. On a NTFS partition, if you see the properties you will see list of user and access rights they have on the particular file or directory.

After the windows repair since the original user who has created the file is no longer there since the user Security Identifier (SID) has changed, therfore we see a user like ?SID-and long string of digits, sometimes the same user is also the owner of a particular file or directory and what if he is also a member of admin group and has revoked all permissions to a file, in that case the new user even if they are adminstrator of their pc can't access a particular file.

So how do I remove references of old owner/creator so as to gain access to a particular file.

Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.

Thanks and Regards.

Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.

--Sonic

[Sonic]

You must logon with admin account, and go to folder propertie, ntfs rights, advanced and set the owner and tick "apply to all subfolders", that's the method with the GUI (if I remember correctly)

You can use a script too, if you have to re-do the operation.

Read that post

[psychedelic_fur]

Hi Sonic,

Thanks for the information

I will take care of using tags in future.

Regards.