Hokay... I'm back from my own hidey-hole and it seems that you have not yet fully understood the Permissions part. Let's make it all simpler as that is my personal preference when it comes to my own PCs. This would probably require you to think different on how to utilize User Folders to your advantage. This method, for me, is 'smart' compared to many who prefer to 'brute force' their way into the whole drive. There is an important reason why Microsoft decided to implement this 'confusing' rules of ownership and permissions.
In my Win10 laptop there is only one hard drive but has two partitions: drive C and D.
- drive C is the system partition or where Windows is installed
- drive D is where my 'user folders/files' are stored/saved (including games but not programs like Office et al.)
In drive D, I created a folder for my 'user folders' which directly translates to a folder containing subfolders (Documents, Pictures, Videos, Downloads, etc.). I set drive D to be 'owned' by the Administrators group with 'full control' (not necessarily needed but I still chose to do so). I chose to apply such setting to all its current contents. This setting would also be applied to any future contents. Once done, I moved my each of my chosen 'user folders' to my preferred corresponding folders in drive D.
For you guys who only have one partition or chose to stick with just one partition, here's how you can apply my above steps to your Win10 setup. An example would be like the following (and this would require you to use Option 4, YES! OPTION 4!):
In the root of drive C, create a folder named 'MyFiles' (or your own username). Take ownership of it and assign 'full control' that will
'apply to this folder, subfolders and files' but do
NOT choose to
'include inheritable permissions from this object's parent.' What you are doing here is that you want to assert your 'full authority' (like a boss) over this new folder and its current (and future) contents AND ignore whatever ownership and permission settings drive C is using. Any new folders/files you create in the 'MyFiles' (or whatever name you used) folder will definitely have your stamp of ownership with it.
Next is 'to move' the user folders' location and contents to their new home. Inside 'MyFiles', you could create:
- MyDocs ---> Documents
- MyBeats ---> Music
- MyPics ---> Pictures
- MyVids ---> Videos
- MyDesk ---> Desktop
- MyDown ---> Downloads
Feel free to add other user folders (like Contacts, Favorites, etc.) of your preference.
If you are not familiar on how to move these folders, check the following link:
User Folders - Change Default Location - Windows 7 Help Forums
It is from the sevenforums but what the images shows there are definitely the same as what you would see in Win10. If there are differences, they would most likely be very minor and it would not even affect what you plan to do. (I tried to look for a Win10 tutorial here but I wasn't able to find an equivalent.)
For good measure or if you want to make sure that the newly-moved files/folders has your 'stamp of ownership', repeat the ownership+permissions step on the 'MyFiles' folder.
And... that's it! The above method will work (unless there's something nasty hiding under the hood which in this case needs to be eliminated as soon as possible.)