Every file and folder on Windows 11/10 has permission attributes. It gives you the authority to edit, read, write, execute, and modify it. It is relatively easy to change file and folder permissions ...

Security is essential, and it is not just that other users can access the files, but programs you install on the computer also get the same access. The good news is that fixing the permissions to ...

It doesn’t happen often, but either by malware attack or networking snafu (sometimes when computers are removed from a domain), you can lose permissions and ownership of your files. Microsoft Windows’ ...

The application data, or appdata, folders in Windows are used to store the settings files necessary for many programs to remember their settings and data and be able to run properly. Every user has ...

Have you ever tried to open a file in Windows 11, only for the completely wrong application to fire up and start loading it? That’s pretty frustrating, right? Well fortunately, there’s a cool little ...

How to change ownership of files and folders in Windows 10 Your email has been sent Changing file or folder ownership in Microsoft Windows 10 requires a deep dive into Properties Settings. When you ...

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.

While in newer versions of Windows, Microsoft offers Windows Media Center as a program, for the XP generation. it produced a separate operating system, Windows XP Media Center Edition. This edition of ...

As companies move off Windows 7 and Server 2008, they run the risk of leaving dangerous access permissions behind. Here's how to find them. Ransomware often leverages a cracked administrator or local ...