Windows 10 And 8.1 Change System Files And Folder User Permissions (ACL)

Windows 10 And 8.1 Change System Files And Folder User Permissions (ACL)

We get a lot of requests regarding changing file and folder permissions. For System files the process is a little bit different but changes can still be done. We do not advise such changes as they can cause system problems, but in certain circumstances it is necessary.

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Transcript (machine generated so it contains errors)

Hello, we get quite a few requests regarding the permissions on files and folders and things the right out and not changeable, especially this will happen generally when it's a folder that is either a system folder or folder or file that is owned by E. Shall we say another user or the trusted solar system et cetera okay, and let's take an example. As we got a request for the system32, which is in the windows directory. Okay, how we actually change the permissions because of really click change permissions. It just goes all grey and that's the end of okay. The simple answer is you action to change the owner 1st to yourself. If you don't know your username go over there and then type in power shell okay and then run it are those admin right click and then run as administrator and then that'll bring up this window and then just type exactly what we have dollar EMV: username okay ours as windows into like I am so basically, there. However, this has to be very, very temporarily done. Okay, so windows ninja check names to find us. Okay, now he was trusted installer before okay to launch do not, shall we say, keep it as windows ninja or your own username okay will cause a lot of problems because most of the system folders and files need to be in the original owner like. However, for whatever reason, it is a temporary change that needs to be done. Okay, click on that click apply. Okay, ill go through all of them. Okay, and when that completes, hopefully presented. Okay, that's fine. Click okay. Basically what it says is you need to close these windows down and then you can open up against okay, now if I want okay, I can change permissions, I can enable inheritance disable inheritance. It's all there. Okay, and let's for example, take the present solar and it is the permissions can be changed okay now. The key thing that you must remember okay. It's tidying up before you finish. Okay, you know. Wanna restart your computer with your username is owner on especially system32 folder again, props before you shut down. Okay, make sure you go back and for the thousand dollars NT space service and is\trusted five and click okay. Once again, replace owner on all the contents apply okay will take roughly by the same time as before okay saying you need to restart the bit okay, and if you see us back to the original way what's. Thanks for watching

[evaneatsbacon]

Great video helping those of us who were stuck with greyed out buttons. Great help!

[kramflar]

Finally! Someone who has explained it well enough to follow.

[dndplus]

Finally, I;ve been fighting the permission for an hour; best 4:10 minutes i've spent in a long time😁 thank you

[daveamsterdam]

I needed to change the owner of a system32 file back to trustedInstaller, your video showed me that I had to type nt service\ before typing trustedinstaller. This worked. If you just type trustedinstaller the computer will not find the name.

[REna]

thanks man that really helped i called my technician and right way just was to work on it and take my money when i could have easily done it my self.... you have save me time and money

[manukalias]

Thanks for sharing this, very clearly explained, at my office a small desktop which also shares a folder for everyone on the network to store their work recently got such permission errors.
No one remembers what was earlier username, they formated Windows drive and reinstalled OS,
Now that folder wont let network users read most of the files.
I fixed a few folders but it was just a wild guess to take ownership of the files.
Will find the actual user using your shared command and try to fix this tomorrow.

[busylivin]

What do I do if I accidentally restarted after I changed user? Now I cant change it back, it won't let me system restore either.

[AbdulKarim-zuye]

English : Thank you this video is very useful, and really helped me in recovering my file data. Thanks very much

Indonesia : Terima kasih video ini sangat bermanfaat, dan sangat membantu saya dalam memulihkan data file saya. Terimakasih banyak :)

[OPODRAO]

there is any way to change the permissions without changing ownership??? maybe trought powershell or cmd??? i would like to give permissions to administrator group without changing any ownership

[danielmolina]

yep! i couldn´t saw excatly the same screens and information, however, it helps on the properties changing issue. Thx.

[francisdio]

THANKS BRO MY PICTURE AND OTHER FILES NOW I CAN SEE IT THANK YOU GOD BLESS

[OhQuickly]

did everything you said and now my gaming services no longer work on xbox app, great job...

[johntovor]

Great tutorial!
Short but on point.
Thanks a lot.

[joshuamohammed]

than u bro . i had tried a lots of way to change hosts file but only this way succeeded

[rjraby]

it says to me You must Read permissions to view the properties of this object.
Click advanced to continue
(i click advance)
it says to me You must Read permissions to view the properties of this object
Click Continue to attempt the operation with administrative permissions
(i click Continue)
it says to me You don't have permission to view or edit this object's permission settings.

[jpg]

That will not work as I have tried and get many subdirectory errors especially in the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder with tons of errors. It's not that easy, sorry.

[Physics]

You don't need to run admin powershell to see the user name and that long command. mouse click on the window button its listed top right also type whoami from command prompt. Both ways more less work than the powershell method.

[roseandraven]

Unable to save permission changes on nv_dispi, inf_amd64_9db4450b8107f59a when trying to create use name as admin

Any ideas, i am trying to rename a nvlddmkm.sys and having absolutely no luck at all

PLEASE HELP

[madsbosc]

HELP! It won't let me change the user back to "TrustedInstaller". What do I do?

[vladimirprato]

I changed from Trusted Installer to "my username". However when I enter system 32 folder and attempt to change a file, it tells me I require permission from "my username". I am on my username account so I don't understand what the problem is. Any help?