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Thanks for the quick response. &nbsp;Changing USERs account type back to &quot;computer administrator&quot; cured my problem. &nbsp;Your solutions were very applicable, so I've split the points between the both of you for your effort and &nbsp;haste in providing a reply.
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Thanks for the quick response.  Changing USERs account type back to "computer administrator" cured my problem.  Your solutions were very applicable, so I've split the points between the both of you for your effort and  haste in providing a reply.

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Computer has Windows XP Pro, SP 2 with all updates and two user accounts. &nbsp;One account is ADMIN with administrator status and the other is USER with limited access status. &nbsp;My friend &quot;who knows about computers&quot; and he used CACLS from the command prompt to allow USER full control over a single directory. &nbsp;Now, he wants to change it back and restore USER to admin status also.<br />
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He THINKS the command he used was this: &nbsp;cacls PROGRAMNAME /t /e /c /g USER:f<br />
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How can we put the permissions back to a default or pre-change state?<br />

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Computer has Windows XP Pro, SP 2 with all updates and two user accounts.  One account is ADMIN with administrator status and the other is USER with limited access status.  My friend "who knows about computers" and he used CACLS from the command prompt to allow USER full control over a single directory.  Now, he wants to change it back and restore USER to admin status also.

He THINKS the command he used was this:  cacls PROGRAMNAME /t /e /c /g USER:f

How can we put the permissions back to a default or pre-change state?


How to restore CACLS to default state?

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