Permissions Lost Win 7

After installing windows updates this morning and restarting all my
permissions were lost. I restarted in safe mode and did a system
restore to pre-update, but still am unable to get my permissions back.
I am totally lost. In viewing my permissions the blocks are checked
but the checks are blue instead of black.
--
 GW Ross 

 There's no virtue in consistency if 
 you're consistently wrong. 

G. Ross wrote:

After installing windows updates this morning and restarting all my
permissions were lost. I restarted in safe mode and did a system
restore to pre-update, but still am unable to get my permissions
back. I am totally lost. In viewing my permissions the blocks are
checked but the checks are blue instead of black.

I have never encountered your problem, but the following link may be
useful;

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/lost-a...hts-in-windows

--
Sir_George

Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:43:35 -0400, "G. Ross" wrote:

After installing windows updates this morning and restarting all my
permissions were lost. I restarted in safe mode and did a system
restore to pre-update, but still am unable to get my permissions back.
I am totally lost. In viewing my permissions the blocks are checked
but the checks are blue instead of black.

Do you utilize windows system restore? If so, return the machine to an earlier
state. If not system restore, do you make regular backups? If so, restore the
machine using your most current backup.

If neither of the above are available, carefully read this article which was
created for Vista but also applies to 7.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/313222


Restore does not complete.




--
 GW Ross 

 There's no virtue in consistency if 
 you're consistently wrong. 

On 4/16/2015 10:25 AM, G. Ross wrote:
Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:43:35 -0400, "G. Ross" wrote:

After installing windows updates this morning and restarting all my
permissions were lost. I restarted in safe mode and did a system
restore to pre-update, but still am unable to get my permissions back.
I am totally lost. In viewing my permissions the blocks are checked
but the checks are blue instead of black.

Do you utilize windows system restore? If so, return the machine to
an earlier
state. If not system restore, do you make regular backups? If so,
restore the
machine using your most current backup.

If neither of the above are available, carefully read this article
which was
created for Vista but also applies to 7.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/313222


Restore does not complete.




I vaguely remember having to do a system restore while in the safe mode
at one time as it would not finish in the normal mode. Might be worth a
try if you were trying to do it before in the normal mode.

GlowingBlueMist wrote:
On 4/16/2015 10:25 AM, G. Ross wrote:
Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:43:35 -0400, "G. Ross" wrote:

After installing windows updates this morning and restarting all my
permissions were lost. I restarted in safe mode and did a system
restore to pre-update, but still am unable to get my permissions back.
I am totally lost. In viewing my permissions the blocks are checked
but the checks are blue instead of black.

Do you utilize windows system restore? If so, return the machine to
an earlier
state. If not system restore, do you make regular backups? If so,
restore the
machine using your most current backup.

If neither of the above are available, carefully read this article
which was
created for Vista but also applies to 7.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/313222


Restore does not complete.




I vaguely remember having to do a system restore while in the safe mode
at one time as it would not finish in the normal mode. Might be worth a
try if you were trying to do it before in the normal mode.

I would do a backup of the current messed up C:, before I did that.

SR done from Safe Mode, cannot be reverted. SR done in regular
running Windows mode, can be reverted.

Paul

On 4/16/2015 10:34 PM, Paul wrote:
GlowingBlueMist wrote:
On 4/16/2015 10:25 AM, G. Ross wrote:
Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:43:35 -0400, "G. Ross"
wrote:

After installing windows updates this morning and restarting all my
permissions were lost. I restarted in safe mode and did a system
restore to pre-update, but still am unable to get my permissions back.
I am totally lost. In viewing my permissions the blocks are checked
but the checks are blue instead of black.

Do you utilize windows system restore? If so, return the machine to
an earlier
state. If not system restore, do you make regular backups? If so,
restore the
machine using your most current backup.

If neither of the above are available, carefully read this article
which was
created for Vista but also applies to 7.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/313222


Restore does not complete.




I vaguely remember having to do a system restore while in the safe
mode at one time as it would not finish in the normal mode. Might be
worth a try if you were trying to do it before in the normal mode.

I would do a backup of the current messed up C:, before I did that.

SR done from Safe Mode, cannot be reverted. SR done in regular
running Windows mode, can be reverted.

Paul
Thanks Paul, good info to know.

On 4/16/2015 9:34 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:29:24 +0000, Stormin'
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:12:29 +0000, Stormin'
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:06:06 +0000, Stormin'
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:43:35 -0400, "G. wrote:

After installing windows updates this morning and restarting all my
permissions were lost. I restarted in safe mode and did a system
restore to pre-update, but still am unable to get my permissions back.
I am totally lost. In viewing my permissions the blocks are checked
but the checks are blue instead of black.

Do you utilize windows system restore? If so, return the machine to an earlier
state. If not system restore, do you make regular backups? If so, restore the
machine using your most current backup.

If neither of the above are available, carefully read this article which was
created for Vista but also applies to 7.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/313222


As a follow-up to my own post, I just remembered a utility which resolved a
similar issue for me when I was feeling lazy and didn't want to jump through the
proper hoops.

Permissions Time Machine Lite v1.4.2.3

http://www.amydprojects.com/2013/10/...chine-v14.html


2nd follow-up, I have also successfully used the procedure detailed in this
forum discussion:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/foru...ns-to-default/

You need to download and install subinacl.msi from:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...inityDownloads

Then create a cmd script named.... reset.cmd and save it in an easily accessible
directory. The script must include the following lines:

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

After doing all the above, open an elevated command prompt and navigate to the
folder where you saved rest.cmd and execute the script.

****, skip my 2nd follow-up above, I just remembered I used this on XP not 7.

Try the permission time machine instead.
After doing several system restores (in safe mode) with no help, I
downloaded the time machine and ran it. All it did was make all the
icons on the desktop turn into generic icons.
Then the machine failed to boot and spent half a day doing startup
repairs but has never booted up again.

Acronis 11 was useless. After pushing F11 Acronis started but could not
read the backup on the dedicated Acronis part of the drive. I then used
the Acronis bootable disk but it could not restore from the USB hard
drive containing the backups.

Right now I am thinking of replacing the whole computer. Never again
will I waste money on Acronis. It worked fine on XP, though.

--
GRoss

Oops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

G. Ross wrote:

After doing several system restores (in safe mode) with no help, I
downloaded the time machine and ran it. All it did was make all the
icons on the desktop turn into generic icons.
Then the machine failed to boot and spent half a day doing startup
repairs but has never booted up again.

Acronis 11 was useless. After pushing F11 Acronis started but could not
read the backup on the dedicated Acronis part of the drive. I then used
the Acronis bootable disk but it could not restore from the USB hard
drive containing the backups.

Right now I am thinking of replacing the whole computer. Never again
will I waste money on Acronis. It worked fine on XP, though.

Backup programs, they sometimes allow two things:

1) Mounting a backup image as if it was a physical disk drive.
2) Converting a backup image to another format. .tib -- .vhd
or .mrimg -- .vhd And perhaps you can find a path from
there (another conversion step), to a .dd and copy all the
associated sectors back onto the original drive.

If Acronis has a Integrity Check function, you'd want to
run that and see if the .tib has good integrity. I suppose
the integrity would also get checked, while converting a
..tib to a .vhd file.

"To convert an Acronis disk image (.tib file) to a .vhd virtual disk..."
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support...html#9239.html

If the thing you're restoring from, is an incremental or differential
or a file by file backup, then such options won't be available. It
would have to be a full image, to have a nice option like .vhd. And
you have to plan all the steps first, before wasting your time
making the .vhd and finding it is a dead end.

It helps, if the .vhd created, happens to match the setup of
the disk as it exists now. It's going to involve a few more
steps, if the image made has different partition sizes than the
disk as it stands now.

*******

As well as running the usual checks on the hardware.
Memtest86+ for stuck-at memory fault checking.
Prime95 (Linux version available) for stress testing
(check for memory errors under stressful conditions).
And a disk tester from Seagate or WD (check for
defective disk). On the theory that the corruption
was related to hardware somehow. Yours is not the
only "change of permissions" reported recently, and
I can't help but feel something else is involved.
But doing the basic checks is good with respect to
"replacing the whole computer" idea.

Paul