The "Security" tab disappeared from my XP Pro SP2 pc! 1

[alelpaso]

I was installing Adobe Acrobat Standard 6.0 as the Administrator when i got a "The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory ... etc. ... Log on as administrator". I was going to check the permissions assigned to the directory when i discovered the "Security" tab missing from all the directory and file permissions windows on the PC.
I have never seen this before, anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks,

alelpaso

 

[linney]

If the Security tab is not available, and if you cannot configure permissions for users and groups, either the file or folder that you want to apply permissions to is not an NTFS drive, or simple file sharing is enabled.

To troubleshoot, follow these steps:

1. Verify that the file or folder that you want to apply permissions to is an NTFS drive. You can set permissions only on drives that are formatted to use NTFS.

2. By default, simplified sharing is enabled in Windows XP unless you are on a domain. To work around this behavior, disable Simplified Sharing.


See Control Panel/ Folder Options/ View (last item).


How to set, view, change, or remove file and folder permissions in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418#7

 

[BVerlaan]

Linney, Thanks very much for this tip!!

I used to work on a Win2k machine and I switched to WinXP a few days ago.
Was very pissed when I noticed that I couldn't reach the security tab. Spent an hour on the MS-site yesterday, but good old Tek-Tips via google gave me the right answer.

 

[JLiashenko]

Thanks for the tek-tip. Looked all around for this info/