Re: Administrator files cannot be accessed

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 01/01/03 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:25:38 -0700

While logged in as Administrator try running at cmd prompt
cacls "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator" /e /t /g Administrators:F
this will grant full control to all accounts that are members of the
Administrators group. When you next log in as Admin you should
be able to explore within the profile storage area of Administrator

You can do this visually in the Security dialog if you have Pro
with Simplified sharing disabled, or in a F8 Safe mode boot in
Pro or Home.

I am not sure what you are up against on the disk label issue.
Which ways have you tried to change it ?
1. highlight in explorer and edit or use rename
2. textbox in properties of the drive node in explorer
3. in disk manager accessing properties of the disk (which
    I think is the same as the dialog accessed in 2) 

--
Roger
"Sven Pran" <no.direct@mail.please> wrote in message
news:8QyQ9.5919$Rc7.109895@news2.e.nsc.no...
> My built-in administrator is "Administrator", my
> everyday administrator is "Admin".
>
> "Admin" is denied any access to
> C:\Documents and settings\Administrator
> and it doesn't seem to matter what I try for the
> various properties on this (group) folder. While
> being logged on as "Administrator" I have tried
> every setting that I can imagine.
>
> So I shall appreciate if you can point me to some
> feature that I may have overlooked?
>
> Incidently: Not even "Administrator" has sufficient
> rights to "rename" (edit the label) on my C:\ disk,
> I have tried in vain to set a more meaningful name
> on that disk, and I am allowed to enter a new name
> in an applicable box. But when I press the final
> <enter> I just get a rejection message.
>
> regards Sven
>
> "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:uVhykZOsCHA.2596@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> > Hi Sven,
> >
> > There are a few properties of the built-in Administrator
> > account, no matter to what it may have been renamed,
> > that are special to that account.  However, there are no
> > files that cannot be made available to other accounts if
> > you manipulate the permissions.  The very few things
> > that are special about the built-in admin account are things
> > like the fact that it is used by default in safe mode and
> > that it cannot be deleted or disabled from local login.
> > It is not so much that there are two classes of admin, as
> > it is that there are a couple of properties of this one admin
> > account that are hard-coded into the OS.
> >
> > Every account can have its profile private.  This means
> > that it alone is granted premissions on this storage, and
> > so no other account (admin or not) has any permissions.
> > This can be changed, and this is not something that is
> > special to the built-in Administrator account.
> >
> > --
> > Roger
> >

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