Set file permission vista

Bookmark the page as you might need it down the road. That's generally how the process goes. In Windows 10, they just moved that to the top and you have to click Change.

Anyway, in Windows 7, click on Change Permissions at the bottom of the first tab. When you do that, another dialog box will popup and it will ask you whether you want to convert the inherited permissions to explicit permissions or whether you just want to remove all the inherited permissions. Clicking Remove , will start you off with a clean slate. In Windows 10, it looks slightly different. After clicking on the Advanced button, you have to click on Disable Inheritance.

The Convert option is the same as Add and the second option is the same as Remove. The only thing you have to understand now is the Effective Permissions or Effective Access tab.

So what is effective permissions? I have a text file and my account, Aseem, has Full Control. Now what if I add another item to the list so that the group Users is denied Full Control. The only problem here is that the Aseem account is also part of the Users group. So I have Full Control in one permission and Deny in another, which one wins? Well, as I mentioned above, Deny always overrides Allow, so Deny will win, but we can also confirm this manually.

In Windows 7, click the Select button and type in the user or group name. In Windows 10, click the Select a user link. In Windows 7, once you select the the user, it will instantly show the permissions in the list box below. As you can see, all of the permissions are unchecked, which makes sense.

I try it on the entire Drive or the lower Folders but still no success. That only file under the folder called config.

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Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Setup. For deployment issues, please use the Windows Vista Deployment and Imaging forum. Sign in to vote. I'm the only one that uses my computer. I am soooo sick and tired of 'permissions' I could puke!

To change the settings for that one file, we could just right-click the file, click the Security tab, and edit the permissions as we did in the previous How do I But what if we had hundreds of files in our example folder hierarchy?

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