Permissions not related to UAC

I'm trying to uninstall Office XP and keep hitting snags. It starts and then
stops and says that a certain file does not have appropriate permission.
Then I have to go find the file, right click, click on Security and either
set myself up as owner or give myself permission. Then I go back and try
again to uninstall and then it hangs on another file and I start all over
again.

My question is, is there a way to set permissions for all parent folders and
sub-folders and files at one time without having to do each file
individually? If there isn't, Vista is going in the garbage can. I'm the
only user on a home computer and should have to jump through hoops just to
uninstall a program.

Any help will be enormously appreciated.

Go to the top of the tree for the program and set the permission for the
folder. This will include all files and subfolders

--

Bob Eyster
MS Windows Vista Premium



"Larry E" <LarryE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07C31245-F037-4321-B9AF-F343BABC271B@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to uninstall Office XP and keep hitting snags. It starts and
> then
> stops and says that a certain file does not have appropriate permission.
> Then I have to go find the file, right click, click on Security and either
> set myself up as owner or give myself permission. Then I go back and try
> again to uninstall and then it hangs on another file and I start all over
> again.
>
> My question is, is there a way to set permissions for all parent folders
> and
> sub-folders and files at one time without having to do each file
> individually? If there isn't, Vista is going in the garbage can. I'm the
> only user on a home computer and should have to jump through hoops just to
> uninstall a program.
>
> Any help will be enormously appreciated.

Thanks Bob, I took some doing, but finally got it to do what I wanted it to
do. I just wish there was a step-by-step process.

Larry

"Bob Eyster" wrote:

> Go to the top of the tree for the program and set the permission for the
> folder. This will include all files and subfolders
>
> --
>
> Bob Eyster
> MS Windows Vista Premium
>
>
>
> "Larry E" <LarryE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:07C31245-F037-4321-B9AF-F343BABC271B@microsoft.com...
> > I'm trying to uninstall Office XP and keep hitting snags. It starts and
> > then
> > stops and says that a certain file does not have appropriate permission.
> > Then I have to go find the file, right click, click on Security and either
> > set myself up as owner or give myself permission. Then I go back and try
> > again to uninstall and then it hangs on another file and I start all over
> > again.
> >
> > My question is, is there a way to set permissions for all parent folders
> > and
> > sub-folders and files at one time without having to do each file
> > individually? If there isn't, Vista is going in the garbage can. I'm the
> > only user on a home computer and should have to jump through hoops just to
> > uninstall a program.
> >
> > Any help will be enormously appreciated.
>
>

Well, it didn't really do what I wanted it to do. Does anyone know if there
is a simple step by step process to accomplish this? I set myself up with
full permission on the parent folder, but it didn't do anything on all the
sub-folders. Anyone have a step by step?

"Larry E" wrote:

> Thanks Bob, I took some doing, but finally got it to do what I wanted it to
> do. I just wish there was a step-by-step process.
>
> Larry
>
> "Bob Eyster" wrote:
>
> > Go to the top of the tree for the program and set the permission for the
> > folder. This will include all files and subfolders
> >
> > --
> >
> > Bob Eyster
> > MS Windows Vista Premium
> >
> >
> >
> > "Larry E" <LarryE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:07C31245-F037-4321-B9AF-F343BABC271B@microsoft.com...
> > > I'm trying to uninstall Office XP and keep hitting snags. It starts and
> > > then
> > > stops and says that a certain file does not have appropriate permission.
> > > Then I have to go find the file, right click, click on Security and either
> > > set myself up as owner or give myself permission. Then I go back and try
> > > again to uninstall and then it hangs on another file and I start all over
> > > again.
> > >
> > > My question is, is there a way to set permissions for all parent folders
> > > and
> > > sub-folders and files at one time without having to do each file
> > > individually? If there isn't, Vista is going in the garbage can. I'm the
> > > only user on a home computer and should have to jump through hoops just to
> > > uninstall a program.
> > >
> > > Any help will be enormously appreciated.
> >
> >