
If so, please make sure it has Write permission.

Please check if your public user account is in the list. If the system is Windows XP Home Edition, please press F8 when the computer starts and boot into Safe Mode with an administrator account to perform the following steps.Ĥ. In the Advanced Settings section, clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.Ĭ. Click Start, and then click My Computer.ī. If there is no Security tab and this is a Windows XP Professional computer, let’s disable simple file sharing to show the Security tabĪ. Right click the blank space (or the Windows folder) and then choose Properties. You can also allow some users (or everyone) to save changes to drive C (or Windows folder)Ģ. Under Group Membership tab, select “Standard user”.

Select the public account and click Properties. In the Open box, type “control userpasswords2” without quotations and then click OK.Ĭ. Log on with admin, click Start, and then click Run.ī. You can change the group membership with the following steps:Ī.

This can be an expected behavior: Windows SteadyState will create a Restricted User Profile (belongs to User Group) by default, which will not have permissions to write to the Windows folder.īased on my test, to change files in the Windows folder, you at least should be a member of Power User Group
