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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Windows Repair reset my program defaults

« on: January 02, 2018, 12:09:24 pm »

I own a Pro license and had a problem when I ran Windows Repair a few days ago.  After running through all of the repair process (yes, it was done after doing a Safe Boot), I found that all my default applications mapped to file types had been reset to the Windows 10 defaults. 

How do I set Windows Repair to NOT change these default mappings and how do I get back to the mappings I had BEFORE I ran Windows Repair?

Thanks

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / File Permission problem with Windows 10

« on: January 02, 2016, 10:23:30 am »

Hi,

Last week, I upgraded my windows 7 desktop to Windows 10 and have had file permission problems ever since on my non-booting internal hard drives. Here is my system configuration:

C:  (Samsung EVO 840 250GB SSD) - Windows 10 boot drive (where my "Documents" folder currently resides)

E: (Western Digital Black 2TB HDD) – contains my old Windows 7 “Documents” folder (at one time this drive had Windows 7 installed on it (before I did a clean install of Windows 7 on my SSD, so this drive still shows a Master Boot Record)

F: (Samsung 1TB HDD) – used for backing up files and storing all my music and pictures

G: (Seagate ST3000 3TB HDD) {this one recently began showing FAILED S.M.A.R.T. tests} – used for backing up files and storing all my music and pictures

H: (HGST 4TB HDD) – used for backing up files and storing all my music and pictures

The problem I am having, and why I am trying to use Windows Repair, is that almost ALL my files on my E, F, G, and H drives have their permissions set such that I always get a notice that I do not have permission to save a file into any of these drives.  Also, Since Windows 10, I cannot save to the root on my C drive and cannot copy or save any files in Program Files, Program Files (x86), or Windows (all on my C drive).

In trying to fix this problem, I did something to the permissions that caused a recursive issue with something in my AppData folder that caused one of the folders to keep being replicated inside itself (this rapidly filled up the hard drive to which I was creating my backups).  I did a clean install of Windows 10 (my original install was an inplace upgrade to save all my programs) and that seems to have cleared up the recursive problem; however, I still have the massive file permission problem.

The account I am using, which has these permission  issues, is an Admin account (although it is not the "super user" Administrator account).

So, this is a long introduction to my question?:

1.    Can the Tweaking.Com Windows Repair program fix the permission problems on ALL my drives or does it only work on my C drive?

2.   How should I go about fixing my problem, if Tweaking.Com Windows Repair does not fix it?  (I am willing to do another clean install of Windows 10, if this clears up these problems, although when I ran it, last time, it did NOT give me the option of reformatting my SSD (boot drive), which I would have done.

3.    Can the SMART failure on my G drive be repaired (perhaps with chkdsk /f)?

 
Thanks,
radar