Progam Files (x86) folder stays in read-only.

[Timpie]

Hello all,

After a recent windows 10 update.
I've been unable to make a shortcut for a program.
I could however make the shortcut on my desktop and put it back in the folder.
I discovered alot of my folder on my C: drive are set in read-only mode.
And i am unable to change that. The properties for my C: drive itself under security is all on ' Allow ' for all users basically.
But not the folders inside C: most commonly Program Files (x86) and Program Files. and also other folders.

I tried several steps from different websites to give myself full access. But it wont work.
I tried " attrib -r +s C:\Program Files (x86) " in CMD, but i get a " parameter format not correct ".

When i right click Program Files (x86) > Properties > Security > I see there is no permission for any users including System.
And everything is greyed out. When i go to edit. Everything is greyed out in there too. And there are different users in there aswell.
Like " ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES, ALL RESTRICTED APPLICATION PACKAGES, CREATER OWNER, Trusted Installer ".
I never seen those before. I also run a scan with Spybot as i thought it would be malware afflicted. But no serious threats were discovered. Just cookies.

Also when i am right clicked in Program Files (x86) > General > I click out Read-Only > Apply > Apply to all folders and Subfolders > Need to provide Administrator permissions > Continue.

I get this error "An error occured applying attributes to the file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Com...\tifffilt.dll Acces denied" to that and a bunch of other files. I do ignore all.
And Progam Files stays in read-only mode afterwards. I am kind of frustrated by this. I hate windows 10 updates.
Hope anyone can help me out. I am going for a walk be back in a hour or so

 

[AndroidOS]

Hi Timple!

Can you try changing the permissions for the whole C:\ drive rather than just the Program Files folder?

1. Right-click the C:\ drive and select Properties
2. Navigate to the Security tab
3. Click Advanced, then Change permissions
4. Choose a user and select Edit
5. Under Applies to: select This folder, subfolder and files
6. Under Basic permissions select Full control
7. Click Ok

 

[Timpie]

Hi Timple!

Can you try changing the permissions for the whole C:\ drive rather than just the Program Files folder?

1. Right-click the C:\ drive and select Properties
2. Navigate to the Security tab
3. Click Advanced, then Change permissions
4. Choose a user and select Edit
5. Under Applies to: select This folder, subfolder and files
6. Under Basic permissions select Full control
7. Click Ok

The settings on my Boot (C:\) drive are already like this.
However when i press on apply. I get this error

"An Error occured while applying security information to: C:\$RECYCLE.BIN. Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied"

And i get this error everywhere. And on the security tab, of my C:\ drive all the users, groups strangely have full access. This folder, subfolder and files.

 

[AndroidOS]

Which account is listed as the owner of the C:\ drive? This will be listed at the top of the Advanced security settings window (the one with the users listed).

 

[Timpie]

Authenticated users - Full Control - Inherited from: None - Applies to: This Folder, subfolders and files.
System - same
Administrators (Desktop..) - same
Users (Desktop...\Users) - Same.

So Authenticated users is on top. And all the users have same settings basically

 

[AndroidOS]

Let's give this a go.

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[Timpie]

Oh wait, i made a mistake i misread you. The ownership currently is Thypi (DESKTOP-SU6S5Q5\Thypi).
I changed that not so long ago.
I was following steps on a different website trying to resolve it.
But before that ownership was something else.

 

[AndroidOS]

No problem, leave it as it is for now and continue with the steps in my last post.

 

[Timpie]

I have to inform you that i am now at step 4.
Everything went successfully. Until i rebooted my laptop at step 3. Check disk /R was enabled for next reboot.
So i rebooted, and then it ran this disk check thing. It only went to like 14%.
Then i got a BOSD, with the smiley. From there on it kept restarting itself. For automatic repair, diagnosing.
Failing to start up windows 10. I got an error with this in it as well " C:\windows\system32\logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt "
When i tried to do an automatic repair from the recovery system. I had to Shut down my computer and restart it from there and skip the disk check to come back in Windows 10 again.

Step 4 is complete now, and it found corrupt files unable to fix some of them. Atleast there's a CBS.log.
It wants to reboot but ill be doing step 5 now. Made a system restore. I'll paste the repair log in my next post

 

[Timpie]

Tweaking.com - Windows Repair 2019 (v4.9.0)
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System Variables
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Running In Windows Safe Mode: False
OS: Windows 10 Home
OS Architecture: 64-bit
OS Version: (1903) 10.0.18362.959
OS Service Pack:
Computer Name: DESKTOP-SU6S5Q5
Windows Drive: C:\
Windows Path: C:\WINDOWS
Program Files: C:\Program Files
Program Files (x86): C:\Program Files (x86)
Current Profile: C:\Users\barto
Current Profile SID: S-1-5-21-1572603852-2933295829-1351681238-1001
Current Profile Classes: S-1-5-21-1572603852-2933295829-1351681238-1001_Classes
Profiles Location: C:\Users
Profiles Location 2: C:\WINDOWS\ServiceProfiles
Local Settings AppData: C:\Users\barto\AppData\Local
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System Information
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Commit Total: 7,34 GB
Commit Limit: 16,56 GB
Commit Peak: 7,68 GB
Handle Count: 101410
Kernel Total: 629,65 MB
Kernel Paged: 384,12 MB
Kernel Non Paged: 245,54 MB
System Cache: 2,26 GB
Thread Count: 3431
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Memory Before Cleaning with CleanMem
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Memory Used: 5,20 GB(66,5219%)
Memory Avail.: 2,62 GB
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Cleaning Memory Before Starting Repairs...

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Memory Avail.: 3,33 GB
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[Timpie]

I still have the same issue.
When i go for example to C:\ProgramData and want to open Application Data. Acces is denied.
And when i right click properties, security tab, change permissions, change ownership or in advanced.

Edit anything in there afterwards i press apply. I get the "Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Acces is denied"
This is with alot of folders in my C:\

 

[Timpie]

Thought maybe time for a little update here from my part.
Last night i played around a bit with cmd.exe administrater mode, and this command: " takeown /F X:\FULL_PATH_TO_FOLDER /r /d y "
Initially it didn't worked, i went to bed, left my laptop on. Today i can access my appdata folder again.
Meaning the programs i usually use. Don't have a problem retrieving the stored data.. profiles.. login credentials for automatically login on start-up.
So that was good. There's still some weird stuff going on. I made a screenshot of it. Hopefully it shows here.
You can see what i mean.

 

[Rustys]

I've been unable to make a shortcut for a program.

What program?

 

[Timpie]

Metatrader 5

 

[AndroidOS]

When you ran the takeown command, which directory did you take ownership of?

 

[Rustys]

With out knowing what and or how you have tried to create the shortcut

See if this helps at all.

Is it listed in the start menu?

Right Click on the file that you use to run it
You can click Pin to Taskbar which will put it on the taskbar

OR

Click on More and select Open File Location
The file should be highlighted right click on it and hover over Send To
Now Select Desktop (Create Shortcut)

OR

Right click on the desktop go to New
Select Shortcut
Then click the browse button
Find the executable file and select that.
Click OK
Click Next
Click Finish

 

[Timpie]

First time folder i wanted to take ownership of was C:\Program Files (x86)
It didn't worked, so i tried other folders. First was just my C:\ drive like this " takeown /F C:\"
That worked, then i put takeown on C:\Telegram. that was successful too.
Then finally i did it on C:\Users. and it kept on running taking ownership of all those subfolders.. It was too much. After an hour and a half i closed that out.
When i do it now on C:\Telegram. I get this:

ERROR: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder) "C:\Telegram".

Even though on my C:\ it went good:

SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "C:\" now owned by user "DESKTOP-SU6S5Q5\Thypi".

 

[Timpie]

With out knowing what and or how you have tried to create the shortcut

See if this helps at all.

Is it listed in the start menu?

Right Click on the file that you use to run it
You can click Pin to Taskbar which will put it on the taskbar

OR

Click on More and select Open File Location
The file should be highlighted right click on it and hover over Send To
Now Select Desktop (Create Shortcut)

OR

Right click on the desktop go to New
Select Shortcut
Then click the browse button
Find the executable file and select that.
Click OK
Click Next
Click Finish

I have moved the folder of the entire program (MetaTrader 5) that resides in: C:\Program Files (x86)\MetaTrader5
To another location on my external harddrive. That works. I created a shortcut in there with a "/portable" in the target field of the new shortcut.
I have to re-configure and adjust all my charts.. indicators.. back to how it was.
My profiles where saved in " C:\Users\barto\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\2ACA3D1E33AC9178E1A290174FACE687 " which i previously didnt had access towards

 

[Rustys]

Thank you the additional information explains what and why more specifically.
@AndroidOS I leave this in you more capable hands.

 

[veeg]

Any updates?