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In Windows 7 Professional, is it safe, within the Advanced Security Settings of the C drive, to set the "Current owner" to "Administrators ([Name]-PC\Administrators)" of the whole drive including "subcontainers and objects"?
While I did get Access Denied messages for some objects during the process (especially ones pertaining to Avast Anti-virus and System from what I recall), I attempted the above change in the Advanced Security Settings as a result of trying to perform a "netstat -b" command in the command prompt window and getting the message "The requested operation requires elevation." Only after I made the above change in the Advanced Security Settings did I realize I just needed to run the command prompt as administrator to perform the "netstat -b" command.
Now that I made the change however I'm concerned if it's relatively safe (I'm the sole user, and I don't personally go messing with program files in Windows Explorer I didn't create myself). The "Current owner" of the C drive previously said "TrustedInstaller" or something like that and I don't see a way to change it back to this.
There was no guide that made that recommendation. I needed to perform the "netstat -b" command at the command prompt as part of the troubleshooting I was trying to do for having an uncharacteristically very slow internet connection. I realized on my own that the security change "might be bad" only after I did it. But since I wasn't completely sure I asked the question in case I didn't have to worry. – Elise Dana – 2013-12-06T19:14:29.147