Windows 10: How to refer to a Microsoft account when setting file permissions across a LAN

There are a half dozen Windows 10 Pro installations on our home & office LAN. I would like to give permissions to my over-arching Microsoft Account of select drives and folders on the various Windows computers, in order to facilitate backups and to distribute select media files. In setting up the file sharing, it would make&

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LAN Connection settings reset after restart

Not sure. I checked out a permissions fix from the Microsoft forums where I accessed the registry Internet Settings and made sure to add my Microsoft account under the users and checked to allow myself to modify settings. I checked out the settings on my own account and it listed me as an administrator on the computer, so I'm not sure what the root of the problem is. Also, in Windows 8.1, is there a "Local users and groups" applet like there was in Win 7? I don't see it in Computer Management like it was in Win 7.

 

Restore Security Permissions

Hello Deepak,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand that you have cancelled the security permissions while setting it to folders and you are trying to restore back. We will help you.

• Which folder are you trying to set the permissions?
• What are you referring to " files is affected "?

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

• Open the file explorer and select the destination folder
  for which you wanted to revert back the permission changes.
• Right click on the folder. Select the Previous versions
  tab.
• Select the previous version in the below list and click
  apply.
• Check if the issue persists.

Keep us posted to help you better.

 

Folder won't open due to permission issue

Hello,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft community. I understand your concern. Let me help you.

I suggest you to sign out from the current account, restart the computer and log in with Administrators account and

check if it helps to resolve the issue.

I suggest you to refer to the steps below and check if it helps to resolve the issue.

• 
  Press and hold or right-click the file or folder, and then click
  Properties.
  
• 
  Tap or click the Security tab.
  
• 
  Under Group or user names, tap or click your name to see the permissions that you have.
  
  To open a file, you have to have the Read permission. To change the permissions of a file or folder, follow these steps.
  
  Important you must be logged on as an administrator to change permissions on files and folders.
  

• 
  Press and hold or right-click the file or folder, and then tap or click
  Properties.
  
• 
  Tap or click the Security tab.
  
• 
  Under Group or user names, tap or click your name to see the permissions that you have.
  
• 
  Tap or click Edit, tap or click your name, select the check boxes for the permissions that you must have, and then click
  OK.
  

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us with more information and we’d be happy to help.