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| Thread ID: 136093 | 2014-01-19 18:34:00 | Small gold padlocks attached to desktop Icons | curly (6655) | Press F1 |
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| 1365489 | 2014-01-19 18:34:00 | Just noticed these this morning. These small padlocks, shown on bottom left of some icons, are all in the closed state. Not every icon has one. Perhaps I have hit a key combo in error :-), however the padlock does not seem to have any effect at all. Any ideas ? |
curly (6655) | ||
| 1365490 | 2014-01-19 19:04:00 | Looks like VMware workstation does this (social.technet.microsoft.com) If It's installed |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1365491 | 2014-01-19 20:52:00 | From that link that Speedy posted there is this: "Here is it from ElgarL: The CORRECT FIX for this..... browse to C:\Users Right click on the correct Users folder and select Properties. Goto the Securities tab and click Advanced. Click Change Permissions. Highlight the Name SYSTEM in the User selection window. Tick the box for 'Replace child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object'. Click Apply. The correct security rights will be restored without giving ALL local users access to your files." |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1365492 | 2014-01-19 20:54:00 | Just noticed these this morning. These small padlocks, shown on bottom left of some icons, are all in the closed state. Not every icon has one. Perhaps I have hit a key combo in error :-), however the padlock does not seem to have any effect at all. Any ideas ? Gidday Speedy, Well I searched the computer and VMware is not installed here as it does not identify the program when I open all programs, nor is it listed in Programs and Features. sooo... any idea wot to do now. As far as I can tell, the padlocks don't seem to be doing anything ! |
curly (6655) | ||
| 1365493 | 2014-01-19 21:17:00 | Those padlocks can mean they are shared folders or system folders that are locked. The reason you can access them is because they are available by your login / user name. If you had them shared then you would find unless the other user has permission they wouldn't open. Check to see if they are shared - right click a folder/properties / Sharing. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1365494 | 2014-01-19 22:39:00 | 5486 You could try this (tick the box to hide protected system files/folders). |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1365495 | 2014-01-21 05:20:00 | Those padlocks can mean they are shared folders or system folders that are locked. The reason you can access them is because they are available by your login / user name. If you had them shared then you would find unless the other user has permission they wouldn't open. Check to see if they are shared - right click a folder/properties / Sharing. Hi, no they were not shared folders and in any case there is no other user, just me :-) |
curly (6655) | ||
| 1365496 | 2014-01-21 05:34:00 | Hi, no they were not shared folders and in any case there is no other user, just me :-) You might be the only human, but you are definitely not the only 'user'. :) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1365497 | 2014-01-21 05:52:00 | You might be the only human, but you are definitely not the only 'user'. :) So, who might be the "Other Users" ? |
curly (6655) | ||
| 1365498 | 2014-01-21 06:12:00 | The Administrator account is a seperate account from your user account. | CliveM (6007) | ||
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