My Documents Folders: Taking Ownership or Setting Permissions

[Peter Lacey]

I cannot take ownership nor set permissions for the My
Documents folders...or, in fact, for any folders on my c:
drive. The security tab is absent from the property box,
and won't appear in spite of repeatedly clearing the "Use
simple file sharing" checkbox.

I don't have the same problem on my other drive. I also
note that I cannot clear the read-only attribute for any
directory on c:, again in spite of using ATTRIB at the
command prompt.

Anyone suggest what's going on?

Peter

[Roger Abell {MVP}]

Is C formatted with NTFS ?
The checkbox with the read-only label on folders is not=20
the directory's read-only attribute. Yeah - go figure.
Rather, it is a switch used to set or unset the attribute on=20
the contained files. The attribute on directories can only=20
be seen and changed with the attrib command.

--=20
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA, MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Peter Lacey" > wrote in message =
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> I cannot take ownership nor set permissions for the My=20
> Documents folders...or, in fact, for any folders on my c:=20
> drive. The security tab is absent from the property box,=20
> and won't appear in spite of repeatedly clearing the "Use=20
> simple file sharing" checkbox.
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> I don't have the same problem on my other drive. I also=20
> note that I cannot clear the read-only attribute for any=20
> directory on c:, again in spite of using ATTRIB at the=20
> command prompt.
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> Anyone suggest what's going on?
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> Peter