Help needed with permission settings!

[Dolby]

Hi. I posted about this issue a few weeks ago and the way I 'fixed' it then was simply to System Restore (safe mode) to before the error. However, it happened again yesterday and now even my System Restore won't complete and take me back to a previous date :/

My girlfriend was touching EVERY single file she could in Windows XP - dll, permissions, system, hidden etc etc when this happened initially. When I boot to XP normally EVERYTHING says 'Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item'. Thats EVERYTHING : can't reach c:, control panel, clock, files, recycle bin etc. The entire thing is locked down.

So my other option is safe mode. The only two accounts I have are 'administrator' and 'Dolby' - which afaik I have to have. 'Dolby' is set to admin rights too. There are no password or funny permissons set, as this my home netbook.

I tried creating another account with admin rights, but it did the same so I just deleted. I turned on Guest - and it too, did the same - so I turned it off again.

In safe mode, I right clicked the c: and checked permissions and notice 'full control' is enabled for everything I see there - barring CREATOR or something

Any idea how to fix it?

 

[bekdik]

set your account to owner of c: and subfolders. Hint go look in properties/security/advanced/owner

 

[LFX]

My girlfriend was touching EVERY single file

buy her a mac

 

[Dolby]

Seems to be fscked ... *sigh* Under 'advanced' > 'owner' the ACER/administrators was listed ... and in the list was only ACER/administrator (no S) was there. I tried both as owners, but no success

 

[Sheepbot]

Get a new girlfriend. Problem solved!

 

[dequadin]

Maybe this

http://contentconsumer.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my-girlfriend/