TrustedInstaller

[JimBob]

Hi,
Recently installed Win 7 and tried using my floppy drive for first time and
had some problems with it. After verifying the drive and data cable was
working OK using my XP box and Win 7 telling me I had the correct drivers
for the drive and the controller I decided to try the flpydisk.sys file from
XP to see if that would make a difference. When trying to us the Device
Manager to update the driver for the drive using the older file from XP
Device Manger would not allow me to do it telling me I had the latest
driver. I then decided to try doing it manually. When trying to move the
flpydisk.sys file, in Win 7, to the desktop I was told I would have to get
permission from TrustedInstaller. Having no idea who TrustedInstaller was I
decided to just take ownership of the file, I only have one user and it's
setup as administrator, which worked to allow me to move the file and try
the XP file which helped some but didn't fully correct the problems I was
having. I then put the original file back and attempted to change the
ownership back to TrustedInstaller. Windows then told me, in so many words,
TrustedInstaller was an invalid name. I sure would appreciate if anyone can
clue me in on who the TrustedInstaller is and why Win 7 won't allow me to
put it back.
Thanks for any info.

 

[Seth]

Hi,
Recently installed Win 7 and tried using my floppy drive for first time
and had some problems with it. After verifying the drive and data cable
was working OK using my XP box and Win 7 telling me I had the correct
drivers for the drive and the controller I decided to try the flpydisk.sys
file from XP to see if that would make a difference. When trying to us the
Device Manager to update the driver for the drive using the older file
from XP Device Manger would not allow me to do it telling me I had the
latest driver. I then decided to try doing it manually. When trying to
move the flpydisk.sys file, in Win 7, to the desktop I was told I would
have to get permission from TrustedInstaller. Having no idea who
TrustedInstaller was I decided to just take ownership of the file, I only
have one user and it's setup as administrator, which worked to allow me to
move the file and try the XP file which helped some but didn't fully
correct the problems I was having. I then put the original file back and
attempted to change the ownership back to TrustedInstaller. Windows then
told me, in so many words, TrustedInstaller was an invalid name. I sure
would appreciate if anyone can clue me in on who the TrustedInstaller is
and why Win 7 won't allow me to put it back.

"TrsutedInstaller" is more of a process than a conventional user. It's fully
qualified name is NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller.

See here...
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/159360-trustedinstaller-restore-owner.html

 

[JimBob]

"TrsutedInstaller" is more of a process than a conventional user. It's
fully qualified name is NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller.

See here...
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/159360-trustedinstaller-restore-owner.html

Hi Seth,
I really appreciate your response, thank you. I didn't have to try the
instructions given because I have at least enough sense to use the backup
program in Win 7 to make a system image. It's good to have that info tucked
away just in case in the future I happen to have a senior moment and forget
to make an image when I'm fooling around with the system.

 

[Jim]

Hi Seth,
I really appreciate your response, thank you. I didn't have to try the
instructions given because I have at least enough sense to use the backup
program in Win 7 to make a system image. It's good to have that info tucked
away just in case in the future I happen to have a senior moment and forget
to make an image when I'm fooling around with the system.

Hope the image is on an external hd .

 

[JimBob]

Hope the image is on an external hd .

Hi Jim,
I do not have an external HD. The image is on drive D my second internal HD
and I have a repair disk for Win 7 shouldn't that be adequate.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Hi Jim,
I do not have an external HD. The image is on drive D my second internal HD
and I have a repair disk for Win 7 shouldn't that be adequate.

If it's indeed a second drive and not a partition on the first, that's
sort of OK, IMO. If your computer has an electrical glitch that kills
the D: drive as well as the C: drive, or is stolen, however, you've
lost all...

An external drive is slower, but safer from the electrical problem. It
could also end up not being stolen if it was nowhere near the computer.

I prefer an external drive, as you can see, but the scenarios I
describe might seem like a bit of a stretch

 

[JimBob]

If it's indeed a second drive and not a partition on the first, that's
sort of OK, IMO. If your computer has an electrical glitch that kills the
D: drive as well as the C: drive, or is stolen, however, you've lost
all...

An external drive is slower, but safer from the electrical problem. It
could also end up not being stolen if it was nowhere near the computer.

I prefer an external drive, as you can see, but the scenarios I describe
might seem like a bit of a stretch

Hi Gene,
Your input is appreciated. Thank you.