Re: Set security on C: to 'everyone' deny full control, can not boot

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:00:09 -0600

Greetings --

    That's because a) the administrator is part of the Everyone group,
and b) restrictions always take precedents over permissions.

Bruce Chambers 

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"kaizen" <kaizen@kaizenintl.com> wrote in message
news:066201c38d2e$6457e600$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> While attempting to secure the c: drive, I set the
> permissions for "Everyone" to "Deny" for all accesses (Full
> Control, Create, Update, Read etc.).  Local Admin was still
> set with full control as was System.  Local users were set
> with create, read, update.
>
> Immediately after performing this function I was unable to
> access any programs on the system, despite being logged in
> as local admin.  When I attempted to reopen the Security
> tab the tab was no longer available.
>
> Upon attempting to reboot, the system fails to boot with a
> c000021a.
>
> It appears that XP processes the Deny Everyone before and
> in exclusion of the permissions that exist for Admin and
> System.
>
> How can this be recovered?
>
> Thanks

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