Windows 7 File Permissions, Weird Problem. (Solved)

Raern

I decided to reinstall Vampire: Bloodlines off my CDs. During the install Comodo fired off and tried to quarantine "vampire.exe" on the CD. Long story short, I ended up having to uninstall Comodo because it would not play nice at all. However, even with Comodo gone, the file "vampire.exe" insists that I do not have permission to access it for any purpose including copying, running, or pretty much anything else you can imagine. This file is still on the CD ROM. If I go into safe mode I can copy it, so it's not a physical flaw with the disc.

Has anyone heard of anything like this? How did Comodo lock down this file, and more importantly how do I unlock it?

Great Scott

There are a variety of ways that Windows can mess with this. Have you tried deleting and reinstalling the game? If you have...

My suggestion, is to

1) Right-click the folder the file is in, click Properties, and then click the "Security" tab.

2) Click the "Advanced" button at the bottom of the window.

3) A new window will open "Advanced Security Settings for <Foldername>". The "Permissions" tab will be open by default.

4) Change to the "Owner" tab. Click the "Edit" button.

5) After making sure "Replace owner on subcontainer and objects" is checked, left-click your username in the "Change owner to..." box.

NOTE: If your username does not appear in the box, click "Other Users and Groups", and type it in the text field provided. If you don't know the exact spelling for your username, you can find out clicking Start and typing "Task Manager" in the search box. You should see that most of the processes running will list your current username.

6) After making sure your username is selected, click "Apply". You may get a popup window to the effect of "All permissions will be replaced if you click Yes". You can click Yes, you would need to in order to continue.

Now that you are the Owner of the folder, you should be able to go back to the Advanced Security Settings for <Foldername>" Permissions tab, and make sure that your account has the Full Control permission set. If it doesn't, you'll be allowed to change it now.

Or, alternatively, you could install the game to a drive letter that is formatted as FAT32... which doesn't have permissions at all.

In any case, let me know if you can solve this!

Raern

Thanks for the help. In the end I managed to work around it and get the game working, after a couple of reboots via safe mode and messing around copying the file.

This is solved.