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Unable to right click Start to programs after accessing from 2nd SSD
I recently installed a new SSD with the purpose of solving all the issues relating to 2004 support ceasing, I was unable to upgrade to 21H1/2 due to the "couldn't complete updates, undoing changes" loop. So I decided to do a clean install of 21H2 on the new SSD. Everything went smooth with the new set up, but a strange thing happened when I accessed my old SSD windows system and went to open the folder I created within "My Documents" folder, it contained my Google Bookmarks I wanted to transfer. Of course it refused access to me and I clicked on proceed as administrator (before we go any further, I probably should've stopped at this point as I'm a novice!!) so after clicking on proceed as administrator it further denied access, I guess as I was logged in with admin rights on the old system when I created the folder and now I'm trying to access it (even though on the same PC but as a different administrator) but what is strange is that it allowed me to change permission and ownership to that folder and this is where the whole thing went pear shaped.
As I said I'm ok with a reasonable level of understanding about PC's (I built my own system and got it up & going 2 years ago) but when it comes to privileges/parent/child objects/ groups etc I'm over in the dunce corner weeping like a babe.
So what happened was I changed the ownership of that 1 folder from my old admin to my new admin PC name. The problem now is that it seems to have been applied to not just that 1 folder, but now the whole account seems to be screwed up on that OS. It seems now to have be randomly changed over to my new admin account on the new SSD. To confirm this I tried to access other folders in my documents and they, as yet, are still protected from my access but others are fine I'm allowed access. My big problem is it has disabled my right click option on "Start" and has also messed with all the programs installed on that drive. I guess that that one change has changed the ownership of that entire OS to my new admin name even though I only changed permissions to 1 folder.
My question is can I reverse this change of ownership and recover my OS again, it has Photoshop and a lot of other programs on it that I wish to still use until I get to install them on the new SSD? I tried doing a system restore, but when windows was searching for a disc image it couldn't find one for "this PC" as I guess the ownership/name has changed and it doesn't recognize the old image.
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I just looked at the ownership of the old SSD and yes the ownership has been changed to the setting I put in place for the folder I changed. I think the mistake I made was to check the "apply to subfolders and files within this folder". So it's taken ownership of random files and folders (not all folders, as I still get you don't have permissions pop up on other folders in "My Documents") and the actual drive itself. So I guess the thing to do would be to take ownership back of the old SSD from the changed name to the original name. I thought when checking that box that it only applied to subfolders within that 1 particular folder, not the whole OS. Will reverting the name back to the original name on the SSD cover the whole OS and therefore no need to start the process at the source I changed in the first place.