I maintain several systems for almost nine years now. I’m often confronted with problems that users cause only by themselves. The following scenario was a bit challenging though.

A user created an administrator account on a Windows Vista (x32) system. After that he noticed that the new account has (by nature) full access to his private files etc. He opened the folder properties and detracted all access rights from the administrator account. So far, so good. But something went wrong…

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