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    The sheer fact you are adjusting permissions is a sign your Windows installation is corrupt. Have you tried restoring the original permissions to the folder you changed?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 14:17
  • How exactly did you grant yourself those permissions? What are the permissions currently on the System Volume Info partition? Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 14:29
  • Not sure what the original permissions were now. :-) I'm hoping/expecting that setting (SYSTEM, LOCAL_SERVICE, SERVICE, luke) recursively would be a superset of the defaults & what the system requires. Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 14:48
  • @LukeUsherwood - I would load up one of Microsoft's free virtual machines and check what the permissions should be. Even if you restore the original permissions there is no guarantee your previous changes don't do something else.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 14:49