Re: Don't Administrators have access to everything?

John W. wrote:
There are two Administrator accounts on my XP Pro system, and I
recently added a Limited user. All of the files I had been using
were in the Shared Documents folder, which the Limited users get
access to. I didn't want them to have access to some folders, so I
moved those to another folder under C:\ and made sure both
Administrator users had Full Control access to the folders and
files. (Simple File Sharing was turned off long ago.) One of the
Administrators is the Owner of nearly every file that was moved.
Now, NO USER has access to most of the moved files, not even the
Administrator who is listed as their Owner. I can't figure out
what is special about the few that can be opened, but I thought the
Administrators group had access to all files. What gives?

Look into taking ownership of the files.

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