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Security Tab missing for c drive only

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by mreiter

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I have one windows XP SP2 machine on our domain that will not allow me to view the security on the root of C. I can bring up the sharing and security on any sub folder, just not on the root directory. I already made sure Simple File Sharing was disabled. Not sure what else could cause this situation. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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by oldbag

Check the Local Area connection properties and make sure that both 'Client for Microsoft Networks' and 'File and printer sharing' are present.

by mreiter

I did check to make sure both were present. Thank you for the suggestion. The really strange part is that it is just the root drive - I can get to the security tab on any other folder. This machine was setup from an image created with Acronis TrueImage that I have used before and never had this problem.

by mreiter

I found the problem. I had to run the following to fix a corrupted registry key:
Run, type "regsvr32 rshx32.dll"

by ldandrid

I'm having a similar problem, no Security tab on any properties windows. (running winXP sp2) I was wondering how you narrowed down to that dll before I re-register mine.

by joy phillip

1) Make sure Simple File Sharing is off (which he did)
2) Make sure the volume you are trying to secure is NTFS. FAT32 doesn't support encryption or the security features of XP.

Those items have to be enabled in order for the security tab to show up.

(Just passed my A+ exams, and that question is on the tests... ;-0 )

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