Everything You Need to Know About Windows Folder Permissions

what you guys got another video here for

you on all you need to know about file

and folder permissions inside windows it

doesn't really matter whether you're

using windows 7 windows 10

you know windows 11 i'll show you

exactly what you need to know so let's

first go into our c root directory here

and create a folder

so what we're going to do

is create a folder in here say for

instance workshare or something along

those lines and maybe you've got a bunch

of people that you want to control

uh what they can look at and what they

can't look at on this folder so right

click on it and go to properties

inside here we're going to go to the

security tab

once inside here we're going to click on

the edit button so click on edit

and this will open up another window and

from here we're going to click on add so

click add and then we're going to add

the everyone to this area here so let's

click everyone in here and then click

check name and then click ok

once we've done this click apply okay

and then okay again and this brings us

back to

where we was which is the work share

so inside here we can now create a new

folder

and we're going to call this say for

instance invoice or something along

those lines or whatever it is that you

want to create your folders for

and this area is where we're going to

give access to users so let's go inside

here and right click on this folder and

go properties

and then we're gonna go to the security

tab

once you clicked on the security tab go

all the way down to the bottom here and

click on

the advanced area here

so you should see the advanced security

settings for this invoice folder

click on the disable inheritance on the

bottom left click on remove all inherent

permissions for this object and then we

can click on apply and you should see a

windows security popping up here so say

yes to this and then click ok and then

ok again now we've removed all the

permissions for this invoice

folder here so if i go clicking on it

it's going to say you don't currently

have any permissions to access this

folder that's because we've removed all

these permissions

but i can still edit the permissions on

this because i'm the administrator so

what i'm going to do here is change all

the permissions for the users so let's

go ahead

and right click on the folder here

and click properties and then go back

into

the security tab again and now from here

we can click advanced

in the advanced security settings for

this invoice folder we're going to click

on now the add to add some permissions

in

so first off we're going to select a

principal

and from here we're going to select

our admin account which will be say for

instance breitek

you can check the name and you should

now see this come up on the list here

yours will probably be called admin or

something like that click ok and we're

going to give the admin full control to

modify read and execute

and read and write and all that sort of

good stuff

also we now need to add in another

permission for someone else that might

be wanting to get access so select

another principal and do a search for

users on this pc so i'm gonna check this

name here and there's sally on here so

we're gonna click ok

and we're gonna give her read and

execute permissions this folder contents

and also and will only give a read

permissions as well no write permission

click apply and then click ok

and that is now done you can click ok

here so let's

check out the permissions by right

clicking on the invoice here now and

click properties then go security and

you will see the groups and user names

for this folder here and as the

administrator you can edit these you can

see the sort of permissions these users

have got

so we can also click on edit here and

add more users if we wish by clicking

add let's say add jim here

do a check name to make sure he's on

here so click ok

and now we can give jim some permissions

as well so maybe we just want him to be

able to see the folder but he won't see

what's inside of it or maybe you just

want to hide it from him and block him

from completely accessing that area

so we'll leave it as it is here where it

says list folder contents but you won't

be able to see

any of the data inside here click apply

and ok

and then we can now click ok again

so we should see now jim has got listed

folder contents

sally's got read and execute

listed folder contents and also she can

read it

but she can't edit any of the uh

information in there only brytech can

says create an invoice inside here so

let's go and create a new text document

we'll just

call this say invoice

and then maybe what we'll do is we'll

just put some text inside here so you

can see how this will work

so let's go ahead and just put this as a

test

and we can go ahead and save this

document here and as the administrator i

can create documents edit documents and

read documents and i've got full control

over this area here

as you can see i can open things up and

i can also create delete and edit these

documents

so now let's go ahead and uh

change accounts to say for instance

sally and see what sally can do here so

let's go ahead and change accounts and

sign into sally's account here

and once we get to the desktop i'm going

to go into this pc

lc drive and we should see our workshare

folder here so let's go ahead and log

into our workshare

then go to invoice and you can see the

invoice is here and of course

sally can access it and read it she can

actually see

uh this document and read it

but so he doesn't have the permission to

edit it or delete it or any of that sort

of stuff and that's because we give her

the uh amount of access that she's

required to say read documents but not

edit them or even delete them so you can

see here if she tries to edit this

document it'll say you need to obtain

admin permissions to edit this document

so she doesn't have the power to edit

them

and even if she tried to delete the file

maybe she wanted to do something

mischievous and delete the file she

wouldn't be able to do that because she

doesn't have administrative privileges

to delete that file

so you can give her access to reading of

the document but you're not giving her

access to edit it or even delete it

so that's the permissions that sally has

to

look at the files but she can't do any

of the other permissions

so let's change accounts to jim and see

what jim can do here so let's go ahead

and click on

jim here

and we'll log into jim's account

now jim can

see the contents we've listed the

contents for jim but we're not giving

him any access

to open files up or edit files or even

delete files so let's go back into our c

root directory here and look at our work

share you can see the folders because

we've allowed him to list the contents

but he can't read even that document

because he doesn't have the permissions

to even read what's in it

so what this video is teaching you is

how to set up permissions for files and

folders and users on

the computer so you can basically

understand how these permissions work

and you can use this for other things

like sharing

documents and files across the network

with other computers as well as users as

well so if you've got stuff on your pc

that you don't want someone else to see

maybe it's a family computer then maybe

you want to set permissions for a

particular type of folder that you don't

want them to be able to access or see

and this is how useful this sort of uh

information is so let's go back into

jim's account here if i want to try to

edit the permissions myself i can't

because i don't have uh the permissions

to edit this you need to be the

administrator and of course you would

have a password on that administrator

account to stop the person logging into

the administrator account and literally

changing any of these permissions

so let's log back into the administrator

account which is brighttech now of

course you would need to have a password

on this account to stop anyone logging

into it to make changes to

uh those folder permissions here so i'm

going to right click on the invoice

folder here as administrator and we're

going to go to the security tab and you

can see the accounts here that have

permissions i'm going to click on jim

here and click edit and i'm going to

give jim uh some permission to do what

he wants with this a particular folder

so let's give him

full control but you can restrict

whatever you want you can put modify or

whatever it is you want to give one

person access to on that folder and it

could be an array of folders drives or

anything like that so go back to jim now

and log in here

and see what jim can do now we've

changed to permissions

so remember jim's now got full control

of this folder here so let's go in here

invoices

and we can now

open up and we delete this file where

would before we couldn't do anything

with this file we can edit it we can

read it

we can literally do whatever we like

because we've given full permission

on that file and on that folder

so that's basically

what that does is you need to set

permissions for

certain files folders and drives that

you want to give access to

for each individual that's using that

computer and if this is great for if

someone's got a family pc and you've got

maybe multiple accounts on that one pc

and you want to stop them accessing

certain stuff then this is essential

that you set this up and it's also good

to know how to understand and use

permissions on a computer

anyway that's going to be about it for

this video my name has been brian from

brighttech computers dot co dot uk just

want to say a quick shout out to all my

youtube members who have joined my

youtube members group i really do

appreciate the support and i will see

you again for another video real soon

bye for now

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