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| Answer» <html><body><p>Without going into it to much, i have a "locked icon" on my "documents and settings" on my C;\ drive<br/><br/>I do know the information/folders...etc that is in the "documents and settings" folder is now in the "USERS" folder<br/><br/>I have tryed to alter the permissions to the documents and settings folder..........but with no luck, i still end up with a "shortcut icon" and access is still denied......... i am the administrator also.<br/><br/>But this "lock icon" is annoying me, even though i know where the folders are.<br/><br/>Is there a sure way to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/get-11812" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GET">GET</a> this locked icon of the documents and settings folder, i am familar with the registry, and wonderd if it can be removed from there.<br/><br/>Windows 7 home premium x64<br/><br/>The reason the lock icon appears is because the "Authenticated users" group is not in the ACL of the folder.<br/><br/>Right-Click the folder, choose properties. Select the Security Tab. Choose "Edit" In the "permissions for " dialog that appears, choose "Add".<br/><br/>Type "Authenticated Users" (without quotes) in the "Enter Object names to select" box. Click OK in all the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/open-245076" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OPEN">OPEN</a> dialogs, and allow it to apply the changes. It may give a "permission denied" error quite a few times, just say continue until it finishes.<br/><br/>That being said, the Lock icon overlay is a piece of information relating to the folder- it's saying "the permissions on this folder differ from it's parent folder". That is, you'll see lock icons on all profile folders (usually), because their permissions differ from the parent folder- a user named james can access C:\Users but not C:\Users\Tom.<br/><br/>What you are effectively doing by performing the steps above is saying that <em>Any</em> logged on user can access your account data, such as documents and so forth.<br/><br/><br/><br/>ShellIconOverlay info is stored in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers; in this case, the "SharingPrivate" subkey, which contains a single clsid:<br/><br/>{08244EE6-92F0-47f2-9FC9-929BAA2E7235}<br/><br/><br/>which is a clsid for the object factory in %SystemRoot%\system32\ntshrui.dll, which in turn contains the lock icon as one of it's resources (120, to be precise).<br/><br/>You could replace this with empty icons. I don't think you can delete them outright, since you'll probably cause a stellar crash whenever you use explorer. <br/><br/>Of course, the problem is, I don't know of a good resource editor that can change 64-bit executables, and even changing the 32-bit version is less then perfect, since it wil just be replaced by SFC, so then you'll have to copy the dll, change it using a resource editor, reboot into recovery console, copy the file into system32 and the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/appropriate-363698" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about APPROPRIATE">APPROPRIATE</a> dllcache folders, and then reboot.<br/>Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 03, 2010, 02:11:43 AM</p><blockquote>The reason the lock icon appears is because the "Authenticated users" group is not in the ACL of the folder.<br/><br/>Right-Click the folder, choose properties. Select the Security Tab. Choose "Edit" In the "permissions for <folder>" dialog that appears, choose "Add".<br/><br/>Type "Authenticated Users" (without quotes) in the "Enter Object names to select" box. Click OK in all the open dialogs, and allow it to apply the changes. It may give a "permission denied" error quite a few times, just say continue until it finishes.<br/><br/>That being said, the Lock icon overlay is a piece of information relating to the folder- it's saying "the permissions on this folder differ from it's parent folder". That is, you'll see lock icons on all profile folders (usually), because their permissions differ from the parent folder- a user named james can access C:\Users but not C:\Users\Tom.<br/><br/>What you are effectively doing by performing the steps above is saying that <em>Any</em> logged on user can access your account data, such as documents and so forth.<br/><br/><br/><br/></blockquote><br/>Thanks BC Programmer.<br/><br/>I didn't think this option would work...........i have since found out that this is not a real folder<br/><br/>Quote<blockquote>The Documents and Settings folder in Win 7 (like Vista) is a "junction," or shortcut," to C:\Users (if you installed Windows on C).<br/><br/>It's there for backwards compatibility; software written to use the old Documents and Settings path just get redirected to the appropriate folder under Users.</blockquote><br/>I think i'll give up on this one...........altering permissions won't get you anywhere.<br/>The second part you suggested......i'll leave that one, its just not worth all the effort for this.... <br/><br/>I have got rid of the lock icon, but i now have a shortcut icon, so if this is a shortcut to C:\Users, and i am the only user , should i still be getting the access denied.............most confusing (folder options are set to show hidden files)<br/><br/>I should be getting redirected to the C:\Users folder...............its so confusing i forgot what i wanted to access this forQuote<blockquote>I have got rid of the lock icon, but i now have a shortcut icon, so if this is a shortcut to C:\Users, and i am the only user , should i still be getting the access denied.............most confusing (folder options are set to show hidden files)<br/><br/>I should be getting redirected to the C:\Users folder...............its so confusing i forgot what i wanted to access this for<br/></blockquote>This is by design. It's not a shortcut, it's a Junction Point, similar, but at the file system level.<br/><br/>getting "access denied" is on purpose- there is no reason to access Documents & Settings as opposed to C:\Users; Programs can access them, but the junction point just redirects them to C:\Users. <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 03, 2010, 03:53:04 AM<blockquote>This is by design. It's not a shortcut, it's a Junction Point, similar, but at the file system level.<br/><br/>getting "access denied" is on purpose- there is no reason to access Documents & Settings as opposed to C:\Users; Programs can access them, but the junction point just redirects them to C:\Users. </blockquote><br/>Thanks again BC_programmer<br/><br/>The initial confusion was that i wasn't getting redirected to C:\Users........<br/><br/>This is where i was going....C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ati9z0wb.default<br/>But now i know its in C:\Users<br/><br/>How was one to know this....i am the administrator and the only user, and i have system files showing, so why did it not redirect me to C:\Users<br/>This must lead to other people getting confused over this, and thinking they have a problem like i did.<br/><br/>Or is it just typical windows or microsoft <br/><br/>PS<br/><br/>It has the shortcut symbol on the folder, so this makes you think its a shortcut, if its not a shortcut why is there a shortcut symbol on the folder.......(just a thought)<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Yep. <br/><br/>Roaming <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/appdata" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about APPDATA">APPDATA</a>:<br/>In XP, it's C:\Documents and Settings\<em>username</em>\Application Data<br/>In Vista/7, it's C:\Users\<em>username</em>\AppData\Roaming<br/><br/>Local AppData:<br/>In XP, it's C:\Documents and Settings\<em>username</em>\Local Settings\Application Data<br/>In Vista/7, it's C:\Users\<em>username</em>\AppData\Local<br/><br/>The junction points are to redirect older programs to the newer paths.Quote from: killerb255 on September 03, 2010, 07:23:15 AM<blockquote>Yep. <br/><br/>Roaming AppData:<br/>In XP, it's C:\Documents and Settings\<em>username</em>\Application Data<br/>In Vista/7, it's C:\Users\<em>username</em>\AppData\Roaming<br/><br/>Local AppData:<br/>In XP, it's C:\Documents and Settings\<em>username</em>\Local Settings\Application Data<br/>In Vista/7, it's C:\Users\<em>username</em>\AppData\Local<br/><br/>The junction points are to redirect older programs to the newer paths.<br/></blockquote><br/>ARR.....i think i must have been reading instructions for XP, when i was on my Win 7 computer.<br/>Guess what........i was <br/><br/>Thankyou guys, for clearing that up for me</body></html> | |