I am the administrator and I can no longer access my files in d drive. I can not change the access permissions back either even if running Explorer.exe as administrator.
I was trying to create a standard user that didn't have access to all my files so I could safely let others use my computer.
Windows however lets all users access them regardless of the account type. It seems to only consider user folders as off limits which seems really odd. I would think only admins/owners can access all the files on the system without restriction.
So, I edit the permissions and see that all authenticated users have access to the drive and obviously I don't want that so I edit it and hit deny.
Obviously I didn't expect to be denied access myself being an Administrator and seeing that Administrators have full control as a separate permission from the one I just edited, but here we are.
I am locked out of the drive completely. So I try to edit the permissions and give full control back to all authenticated users and that seemed ok at first.Then I tried just denying access to the new standard user specifically instead.
I tried going back to authenticated user and clicking deny and then full control again and hitting apply to reset it. Doing this keeps showing errors saying that I don't have access to enumerate the contents of the folders.
I now can see the folders in the root of the drive but I cant access anything inside them.
Clearly the interface for permissions in windows 10 is useless. Is there some PowerShell command I can run to give permission back so I can fix this situation.
I cant format the drive to not suggest that. All my personal files are on there.
The ideal result I am after::
- All administrators have access to everything.
- The new standard user I created can not access anything on D drive except for,
- a select few folders on the drive that I specifically give them access to.
- new standard users created will not have access to the drive unless explicitly given permission as well same as the previous user.