TweakXP

[Kaliber]

Hi, my brother was fooling around with the TweakXP 'fiel lock' feature and he totally screwed it up. Now we can't get into the folder. We try and remove it, it says 'removed' but we still can't get into it. How can we get around this? How exactly does it secure the folders?

Can anyone help me? Its got some files I need.

[CareBear]

log in with an Administrator account, go to the folder and rightclick and select properties, go to the Security tab and make sure "Everyone" has every acces checked in the "Allow" checkboxes (click on Add to add the user if it's not there).
You may have to click Advanced and check "Reset permissions on all child objects and enable etc etc" and click Apply.

If that doesn't work then click Advanced, go to the Owner tab and click Administrators once and check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" and hit apply and then try setting permissions for Everyone again.

Hope it helps :)

[Kaliber]

Thanks alot for the help, I run XP home, what do you mean by the advanced tab, I have one but it only has a few options and none of the ones are similar to the ones you mentioned. Once again thanks :)

[CareBear]

I should have asked if your hard disk is formatted with NTFS first :o

Can you "cd" to the folder using the command prompt? If so try "attrib" and enter. Look if there's a "desktop.ini" file or "folder.htt" or any other hidden/system file.

If it is NTFS then can also try this: open a command prompt and then cd to the directory right above the TweakXP one.
Type: cacls NameOfTheTweakXPDirectory
You should see something like: C:\SomePath\NameOfTheTweakXPDirectory Everyone: (OI)(CI)F
(the most important letter is the F which means everyone has full access to the folder)
If it's not there then try: cacls NameOfTheTweakXPDirectory /e /g Everyone:f

I'm guessing really, I never used that particular program... isn't there some switch to undo whatever he did? :confused:

(Edited cause of a stupid vbulletin "bug" :angry2: )