Hello,
I have just recently clean - re-installed my system - it's Windows 8 Pro x64. I have one dedicated SSD hard drive to be used by the OS and most of the applications which means Disk C is the system drive where I keep all installed programs and it's about 250 gigs in size. All the other HDs are used to keep all my documents, games, backups and other stuff. Now, from time to time when I try to run WinZip or an installer of some sort I get different kinds of error message which always come to this: the app has no access to temp folder. I went to the Temp folder located at C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Temp and noticed that the Security Tab of that folder only contains the following users:
Everyone with low permissions (read and write)
Administrators with Full control.
I've checked in two other different computers in my home with the same OS installed and those computers has three users instead of two listed in the security Tab (SYSTEM, Administrators and the machine user with full access to that folder).
I then changed the security permissions of that folder to match the other computers meaning that I removed the Everyone and added the SYSTEM and the machine user (myself).
Now the funny part - everything works perfectly after that change but couple hours again all of the sudden the issue returns and guess what? it changes the permission by itself back to what were before (Everyone and Administrators).
I ran the Kaspersky which is my AV and other malware programs such as Spybot and Malwarebytes and they couldn't find anything in my computer.
I'm at a loss here. I consider myself to be fairly experienced computer user, but that kind of behavior is beyond my comprehension. Does anyone have any clue what I might be doing wrong? Maybe some policy in the registry or GPedit?
As a tip - nothing new was installed in my computer that was not installed in my previous version which was Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
Here is a quick log for the paths I have in my system
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Gabriel>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
APPDATA=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Roaming
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=R2-D2
ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\Gabriel
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER=\\R2-D2
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=8
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32
\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-St
atic;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Too
ls\MKVToolNix;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x86;C:\Program Fil
es (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x64
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=2a07
ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
SAN_DIR=C:\Program Files\Hardware and Drive Tools\SiSoftware Sandra Business 201
3
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\Windows
TEMP=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Local\Temp
USERDOMAIN=R2-D2
USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=R2-D2
USERNAME=Gabriel
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Gabriel
windir=C:\Windows
C:\Users\Gabriel>
Thanks in Advance,
J
I have just recently clean - re-installed my system - it's Windows 8 Pro x64. I have one dedicated SSD hard drive to be used by the OS and most of the applications which means Disk C is the system drive where I keep all installed programs and it's about 250 gigs in size. All the other HDs are used to keep all my documents, games, backups and other stuff. Now, from time to time when I try to run WinZip or an installer of some sort I get different kinds of error message which always come to this: the app has no access to temp folder. I went to the Temp folder located at C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Temp and noticed that the Security Tab of that folder only contains the following users:
Everyone with low permissions (read and write)
Administrators with Full control.
I've checked in two other different computers in my home with the same OS installed and those computers has three users instead of two listed in the security Tab (SYSTEM, Administrators and the machine user with full access to that folder).
I then changed the security permissions of that folder to match the other computers meaning that I removed the Everyone and added the SYSTEM and the machine user (myself).
Now the funny part - everything works perfectly after that change but couple hours again all of the sudden the issue returns and guess what? it changes the permission by itself back to what were before (Everyone and Administrators).
I ran the Kaspersky which is my AV and other malware programs such as Spybot and Malwarebytes and they couldn't find anything in my computer.
I'm at a loss here. I consider myself to be fairly experienced computer user, but that kind of behavior is beyond my comprehension. Does anyone have any clue what I might be doing wrong? Maybe some policy in the registry or GPedit?
As a tip - nothing new was installed in my computer that was not installed in my previous version which was Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
Here is a quick log for the paths I have in my system
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Gabriel>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
APPDATA=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Roaming
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=R2-D2
ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\Gabriel
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER=\\R2-D2
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=8
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32
\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-St
atic;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Too
ls\MKVToolNix;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x86;C:\Program Fil
es (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x64
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=2a07
ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
SAN_DIR=C:\Program Files\Hardware and Drive Tools\SiSoftware Sandra Business 201
3
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\Windows
TEMP=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Local\Temp
USERDOMAIN=R2-D2
USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=R2-D2
USERNAME=Gabriel
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Gabriel
windir=C:\Windows
C:\Users\Gabriel>
Thanks in Advance,
J