Steps To Reset All User Permissions To Default

Steps To Reset All User Permissions To Default

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This article will explain how to change the user permission on Windows (Vista and Windows 7) to its default settings.

Use this method only if you have accidentally changed some user permission on your Windows machine . I can't change the permissions back because it tells me that I do not have access to certain folders.

It is very important that if you have created System Restore points try to restore your system back to previous dates on which your system worked without the above mentioned problem.

To reset system permissions, follow the steps:

• You will need to run ‘Subinacl Tool’ to reset the permission to normal.  Download subinacl.msi from the following link, and save it on the desktop.

(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en#AffinityDownloads)

• On the desktop, double-click subinacl.msi to install the tool.
• Select C:\Windows\System32 as the destination folder.

This step assumes that Windows is installed in C:\Windows. If Windows is installed elsewhere, select the appropriate path to .\System32.

• Open Notepad.
• Copy the following commands and then paste them into the opened Notepad window.

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f

• In Notepad click File, Save As, and then type: reset.cmd
• In Notepad click Save as type, and then select All Files (*.*).

• Save the reset.cmd file to your desktop, and close Notepad.
• Double-click the reset.cmd file to reset the Windows Update permissions. If this gives you any error message, then right click on reset.cmd and choose “Run As Administrator” as shown in the below screen shot. And if you are asked with any question, give Yes to continue.

This step may take several minutes, so please be patient. When the permissions have been reset, you will be prompted with "Finished, press any key to continue."

• Press any key to complete the installation.

Check if you have the right permissions to all the folders for all users.

This works for Windows 7 as well as Vista. How do I restore security settings to the default settings?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222

For more information you may check the article given below. The article given is for Windows XP updates, but still holds good for Windows Vista as well as Windows 7.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968003

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Change Profile Picture In Windows 8 | Step-by-Step Instructions

Change Profile Picture In Windows 8 | Step-by-Step Instructions

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Changing the profile picture on Windows 8 is slightly different from what we do on Windows 7. However, it is very easy to change profile picture in windows 8 with few mouse clicks.

To change your windows 8 profile picture, login to your windows 8 operating system and then by default it will open start page. Click on the image on right top of the screen as shown in the below screenshot and select “change user tile” from the drop down menu.

Once you have selected that option then it will open control panel with personalize settings. By default, on right side, user title option is selected where you can see a “Browse” button.

Usually the tab, which is not selected will show as a green color. In the above screenshot, since we have selected User tile option that’s why “lock screen” tab is showing in green color. This is the easiest way to recognize which one is currently active.

If “user title” option is not selected then you can click on user title link to select it. Once you have selected, click on browse and locate the file which you want to upload as your profile picture from your hard drive and then upload it. It will take few seconds to upload your profile picture.

You have an added advantage if you are using webcam. As you can easily take your snap from your webcam and set it as your profile picture on Windows 8 Logon as well as you can set it as your Profile Picture on your Windows live account.

So, Hope you learned the process of changing profile picture in windows 8 operating system. If you have some other doubts then feel free to ask below.

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How To Change Logon Picture in Windows 7

How To Change Logon Picture in Windows 7

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Microsoft supplies 36 user pictures (as you can see in the below screen shot) from which you can choose, an improvement from Window Vista’s 12, Instead of using Windows 7’s built-in images, why not use a favorite photograph or other image?

Here’s how: Open the Start menu and click on the user picture at the top-right corner of the Start menu. This causes the User Accounts window to open. Click the link titled Change Your Picture, and you’ll see the interface shown in Figure below.

Click the Browse for More Pictures link and then use the standard Open File window that appears to find a favorite photo.

Because your account picture always appears inside of a square area, you may want to edit a photo before performing these steps, cropping it accordingly into a square shape. That way, Windows 7 won’t have to do its own (non-optimal) cropping.

You don’t have to settle for Windows 7’s built-in account pictures. You can click on Browse for more pictures on the left corner (as you see in the above picture) and choose your own picture or any thing that you like (art, internet pic.. so so so those you have on your Hard Disk or the system).

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How To Setup PIN To Logon To Windows 8

How To Setup PIN To Logon To Windows 8

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Plenty of new features have been added to Windows 8 Operating System. And to user logon and User Authentication, we have seen how to logon into Windows 8 using Picture or using a touch (Steps To Setup Picture Password in Windows 8) which would be useful if you are using touch enabled devices.

And in this article, we will see one more new feature that have been added to Windows 8 User Authentication, the PIN For Logging Into Windows 8. The PIN logon is similar to PIN in credit and debit cards of banks.

Step-by-Step Instructions To Set up a PIN to login to Windows 8

The PIN logon in Windows 8 is similar to the PIN that we use in credit cards or debit cards of banks at the ATM. Like the Picture password, the PIN is another excellent feature introduced in Windows 8.

PIN allows you to setup Windows 8 login password at the most four digits. This may not be as secure as a picture password but is a faster method to logon to Windows 8. This method would be very useful for touch enabled devices.

Open the Control Panel and select Users

Under your account details (as in the above figure), you can see an option "PIN Logon". Now click on Create a PIN button below that.

Now you need to enter your current logon password and click on OK button. In the next step you need to set up your PIN for logon

In the next dialog, you have to enter the four digit PIN and also re type the PIN to confirm it. Click on "Finish" at the end

That is all! your PIN is not set up for PIN logon to Windows 8 and you can start using it next time to login to Windows 8 account.

Also, in our earlier post we have seen how to logon into Windows 8 using Picture or using a touch (Steps To Setup Picture Password in Windows 8). There are still quite a lot of new features added in Windows 8 and stay tuned with bench3 to know more.

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Fix Continues Reduction and Losing Hard Disk Space

Fix Continues Reduction and Losing Hard Disk Space

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If your computer Continues to lose the Free Disk Space, and you are facing reduction of available hard drive space daily, the following article will help you find out what the cause for Continues Reduction and Losing hard drive space daily.

My computer is barely a month old.  I have only put on about 6 programs, all with small footprints.  I transferred over about 70GB of files.  I know that the system uses memory out of the box but even with all that taken in to account I can't account for over 40GB of space and the amount is increasing daily.

I clean out temporary files and use disk clean-up to reclaim space.  But it is typically minimal and it doesn't account for what I am losing.  I have the system restore space set to a pretty small percentage.  In summary I think I have everything set correct to minimize hard drive usage yet the space is being eaten up at an alarming rate.  No viruses, MSE is on the system and has not found a thing.

Where the heck is the space going?  I'm glad I have a large hard drive so there is wiggle room but this is ridiculous to have hard drive space disappearing on it's own.  I am sure it is OS related. 

Solutions:

First, it may depend on what antivirus you are using. Sometimes your Antivirus stores lots and lots of Quarantine files. Check it up.

Also, Try JDiskReport: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ 

This software will shows space used by folders and also list 50 largest files on your system. Eventually System Restore will use about 15% of your drive space but then will begin dropping old restore points as it creates new ones.  Give the system a little more time.  You will continue to lose space much longer.

Hibernation will not be a cause for continues reduction of available Hard Disk Space, as the hibernation files will only be as large as the memory the computer has (4GB in my case).  So it seems it would max out at 4GB and then wouldn't take more.

With the reduction in space for system restore points and using JDiskReports or TreeSize:http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/ you should be able to keep a close eye on disks space usage.

The easiest way for us to help might be for you list the immediate sub-folders of your C partition and folder sizes getting the information from Windows Explorer. Click on each sub-folder in turn (Windows is one) and select Properties you will see their size. You might also tell us the size of pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys, which are two large files on the root of C. We can then get some idea how your 95 gb breaks down and make comparisons to what might be expected.

If you find it difficult, create a new user account in Windows 7, move your old files and documents to the new profile and delete the old profile. I mean, delete all files related to the old profile.

To be certain you are getting the true figures you should select Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View, Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files" is unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known file types" is not checked.

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Steps To Enable Built-in Administrator Account In Windows 8

Steps To Enable Built-in Administrator Account In Windows 8

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When we used to work on Windows XP, we will be having a build in Administrator Account. And in fact it is mandatory that we create a Administrator Account by default while installing Windows XP.

What it means is, when we can able to login to Administrator Account, it is understood that we have all rights on the System and to do everything that can be possibly done with Windows.

The administrator account used to be there in plain sight and we could use it right form the installation as the default account without needing any special tweaks.

However, with the advent of Windows Vista, came the User Account Control with better restrictions to avoid any glitches. As a result the admin account was gone.

Well it was there all the time only you needed the right way (an one-liner command line execution) to unhide it.

And now in Windows 8, just like the previous versions it is still comes as hidden account in the newest Microsoft offering, Windows 8. And lets see how to enable built-in administrator account in Windows 8.

Warning! Administrator account is kept hidden purposefully for making the system fool-proof against any unintended or misuse of the Windows 8 Operating System. So, proceed with caution.

1. Type lusrmgr.msc on start screen and open the app that appears as the search result.

(or) Click start and Run (Windows Key + R), type lusrmgr.msc and hit enter. This will open the Local Users and Account Manager (LUSRMGR).

2. In the LUSRMGR window, double click the users folder to show the list of local user accounts.

3. Once the Administrator account is there, right-click on it and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog, uncheck the option “Account is disabled”.

4. Since the administrator account enjoys all the rights and is free from UAC, it is highly recommended to maintain a strong password to ensure secured access. To change the password, right click on the Administrator user and choose Set Password.

5. You will be shown a warning stating the risks of changing the password. Read it and use the Proceed button to change the password using the password changing dialog box.

6.  Change the password in the next window and click on OK. The password will be needed next time you want to access the administrator account from the logon screen.

Restart or log off from your current account to see the changes in action.

As already said, the administrative account is kept hidden purposefully for making the system fool-proof against any unintended or misuse of the Windows 8 Operating System and its files.

So, be cautious while making any changes to the Windows 8 PC using Administrator account.

Note: You can also revert back to the default settings by disabling the the account from the properties dialog mentioned in step 3 above.

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