Hi all, I am unable to edit folder permissions in Windows 7. I am logged in as Administrator. Any suggestions?
I`m not sure if you can change permissions on a Windows Server. I has the same problem with one of my client who has a Windows Hosting Server
1. Right click on the file or folder under consideration and choose Properties. 2. Go to the Security tab and click on Edit button. Note that you need to be logged in as an Administrator for the Edit button to work. (Or you could confirm your administrator credentials in the UAC dialog) 3. In the following Security Permissions window, you can view a list of all groups and users as well as their permissions. In case you have not found the user name in the list, click Add to open the ‘Select Users or Groups’ dialog. Enter the user name in the text box and hit Check Names to retrieve all available users with that string. Select the desired one and click OK. This will add it to the above mentioned list of users. select-users-groups 4. Now select the user or group, for which you want to change file permissions, from the list. 5. In the Permissions section below, tick the check boxes under the Allow column for all the permission which you want to grant. Use the Deny column if you want to negate your selections. By default most folders and files have the ‘Read & execute’, ‘Read’, ‘List folder contents’ checkboxes selected. If you want to let users move or delete the file, check the ‘Full control’ or ‘Modify’ permissions. change-file-permissions 6. Click OK to save the changes. Exit the Folder Properties window. 7. Now you can access the file or folder with full control and move or delete it.