Windows 10: No directory permissions, but it's my account and I'm an Admin

So Windows randomly sets some folders as read-only and I can't seem to change them to read-write.




When I click on the Advanced button, me as the user has no ability to modify subfolders.





I even tried this command from an elevated prompt, which seemed to work, but in reality did not enable me to change the problem folder to read-write.

C:\Program Files>attrib -r -s adobe\*.* /s

:)

 

Remove account

I suggest you backup your personalized files first before removing the account.
To delete an account, follow these steps:

1. Press WIN + X keys and click Command Prompt (Admin) from the menu.
2. Type the following command and press Enter. Replace test with the name of your sister's account. Code:

 

How to change admin user account name?

ah so main admin account is 'wizzle' which is what I am currently on
I make another account called 'wizzle2' (with admin rights)
I sign out of 'wizzle' and sign into 'wizzle2'.
And once signed into 'wizzle2', then I do the command prompt step and find the SID for 'wizzle' that is listed and go from there?

 

User permissions incorrect (corrupted?) for admin account?

I have a machine I have had for a few years and has been working fine. Suddenly a couple days ago Dropbox gave me an error that it couldn't start and said the error was 'usually because of a permissions error'. Since then, Photoshop will not start, saying it doesn't have access to some files it needs, and I have several other programs that are not working correctly with similar messages. My main account that I use is an admin account, but it is still giving these messages. I did figure out that if I start Dropbox or Photoshop in admin mode they start ok. Other programs also start as administrator and work better but some still seem to have issues.

One program mentions the a folder under the local app data temp folder (C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Temp) so I went there to see what I can see for permissions. My account is listed with full permissions to that folder. I do notice that there is an odd security item named 'LogonSessionId_0_1568081 (NT AUTHORITY)" that I don't remember seeing, but it's not listed as having any permissions at all except for 'special permissions' which is grayed out... If I go to 'Advanced' and 'Edit' for that account it shows basic permissions of 'Read & Execute, List folder contents, and Read'.

I also found in a subfolder of the above named 'UnionWinmdWorkingFolder'. When I go to permissions here it tells me 'You do not have permission to view this objects security properties, even as an administrative user.'

Lastly, along side that temp folder, There are 53 folders named something like 'Tempzxpsign0ce74a38c9836c50' (All start with 'Tempzxpsign' and then have a bunch of letters and numbers after them). All appear to be empty from what I can see.

The only things I can think of that I have installed recently are the Angular CLI and one or two node.js packages but those were well before the issue started...

Anyone else seen this or had this issue? Is this some type of virus? BitDefender doesn't detect anything...