Basics about file/folder permissions on Win 7
- by Altar
Hi.
Under Win XP I never touched the permissions of a file/folder. I was happy with the way it worked. But recently I installed Windows 7 on a drive that previously hosted Windows XP.
Now, some programs do not have 'read' and/or 'write' access to their own folders - and I am not talking about system folders like 'Program Files' but normal folders like 'C:\my data\my own folder\program folder'.
I see that for folders created under Win XP I have some user groups that do not exist for 'normal' folders (folders created by me recently under Windows 7).
For example, for the Win XP folder I have:
Creator owner
System
Account unknown(S-1-5-21 blablabla...
Admins
Users
For Win7 folders I have:
Authenticated users
System
Admins
Users
How should I proceed?
Should I give the right to the "Users" account to write to XP folders?
Should I make the old folders (the XP folders) to have the same groups of users as the normal (Win7) ones by adding the "Authenticated users" account to those folders?
Should I delete the "Account unknown" account from my system? (In this case, how?)
Many thanks.
