I still have access to administrator accounts. How do I do it, having logged on to an administrator account?
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In Windows XP Home, when you right-click on your user folder, and click sharing and security. One of the options selected is Make this folder private? How can you deselect that without logging on to the account in question. I ask because I accidentally deleted that account, and when I recreated it, I could no longer access the folder.
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I'm sorry, that doesn't work. I will post a screenshot illustrating the relevant option. It's at http://home.comcast.net/~s
Windows Home doesnt support Acess Control Lists period. By checking that box your effectively doing this on an ACL:
Yourmachine\UserName ~~>> Full Control.
Yourmachine\Administrators
That is what happening behind the scenes. You will need to boot in safe mode. If you can access the folder copy out the data out of it. If not you will need to use a command line utility CACLS to change the ACL.
>> Can you recreate the deleted account with same name and permissions, and access the folder?
No. I have created the same account, but it's made a new account folder labelled with my name,then a period, then my current domain. I can't access the old folder. That's the problem.
>>You will need to boot in safe mode.
I'll try that when I get back to the computer. Incidentally, if that's all it takes to get in the folder, it's pointless to have that option at all. If it were a question of booting to a floppy, it might still be worthwhile. Can you provide a link to a site where I can acquire CACLS, should that become necessary?
>> Can you recreate the deleted account with same name and permissions, and access the folder?
That is not possible. When you create an account a new Security Identifier is created (aka SID). Different access token is built on it. So there is no way it can be the same. Windows does not care about User Names all it cares about the SID.
>>You will need to boot in safe mode.
I think the best way to go is to boot in this mode. Since this mode is the "only" true ADmin power on Windows XP Home machine. CACLs should be already installed just go to command prompt and type cacls. You should get the usage clause how to use it. If not you can download it here
http://www.computerperform
Thank you so much for your help. After logging on in safe mode, I was able to access the security tab, which was very different from what I'm used to. I gave my new account(and Admins) full control. At first, I accidentally omitted the subfolders, but I corrected that by taking "ownership" of my original folder and all its contents. That also gave me full control over them. The only things that remained after that was setting the "special folders" in TweakUI(from WinXP Powertoys) to equal what they were before, and changing my background :) . Thanks a lot for the information, although it's just another sign (among many) that Windows has no real security.
Here's what may be a useful tip: If you're ever in a situation like mine, to really make your old account equal your new, go through the registry and change all the references to the new account folder to the old one. If you don't want to bother doing everything, be sure to at least get the values in My Computer\HKEY Current User\Software\Microsoft\Wi
There is NO way to create the same account by cross-referencing the registry. You can import a user via File and Settings Transfer Wizard. But as far as Windows is concerned the SID is different, so it is a different user. Windows XP has a pretty granular Access Conrol List configuration, with auditing built in. It is just not available in Windows Home, as it was designed for home users, who dont care so much about security.
>>There is NO way to create the same account by cross-referencing the registry.
I know that, but most of the settings will be taken from the old account's folder if you do that.
>>You can imort a user via File and Settings Transfer Wizard.
Thank you. I may try that.
>>But as far as Windows is concerned the SID is different, so it is a different user. Windows XP has a pretty granular Access Conrol List configuration, with auditing built in.
I know. By the time I started modifying the registry, I was no longer trying to recover my data. Rather, I was trying to get settings
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by: war1Posted on 2005-07-06 at 16:37:53ID: 14383235
Greetings, superm401!
>How can you deselect that without logging on to the account in question.
You need to be in Administrator account to de-select that folder option.
Cheers!