Effective Permissions Tool For Files And Folders In Windows 11 10

Effective Permissions for Users and User Groups

As mentioned, Effective Permissions is a set of permissions of the file or folder for any user or user group. To secure the contents of the user, Windows sets some permission for each file or folder object. It grants users specific user rights, that will allow the user or user group to read, modify, delete, etc the object. The minimum permission is the Read permission. This chart, sourced from Windows Help, lists the access limitations for each set of the special permissions.

View Effective Permissions for User or User Groups

To view the Effective Permissions for any files or folders, right-click on it and select Properties and click on the Security tab.

Next, click on the Advanced button and then on the Effective Permissions tab.

Now click on Select.

Here, enter the name of a user or user group and click on OK.

All or some of the checkboxes will automatically get selected. These will indicate the effective permissions of the particular user or user group for that file or folder. Read: You don’t currently have permission to access this folder or file.

Effective Permissions Tool

If you want to find out what permissions a user or group has on an object, you can use the Effective Permissions tool. It calculates the permissions that are granted to the specified user or group. The calculation includes the permissions in effect from group membership and any permissions inherited from the parent object. It looks up all domain and local groups in which the user or group is a member.

AccessChk is a command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more. This tool may interest you too.NTFS Permissions Tool lets you Set File and Folder Permissions for System Files. It has a nice UI.Permissions Time Machine will help you remove File Access Denied or Access is Denied error messages.

You can read more on managing file and folder permissions in Windows and Server at TechNet. You may now want to see how to reset NTFS file permissions in Windows.