i need help copying and pasting inside windows 10 app folders and subfolders

[DeathtoGnomes]

Yes, it would affect security, but I'm talking about doing this to a Windows install that I'm going to scrap which is sitting on a slave drive (or another partition) not the active Windows installation so this isn't an issue.

Ok still not sure what you want to do but, afaik, not all sub-folders, or parent folders, will have the same permission groups, i.e., not all will have TrustedInstaller or CREATOR OWNER attached. The Inheritance setting is per group, meaning, each individual group has an inheritance setting, one setting does not apply to all groups. (I think i said that right, lol)

I suppose, just a thought, that you could effectively, and completely, remove permission from M$, I've never done it, so not sure what happens with windows update but that would be interesting to see.

 

[slozomby]

yall are making this harder than it needs to be.

open a command prompt as administrator ( right click and run as administrator, not just running it as an account that has admin privledges)
robocopy "d:\path\to\files" "c:\program files\new\path" /e

no need to mangle permissions on the folders. its UAC stomping all over the copies.

the other alternative is to manually disable UAC copy the files and revert back.
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-and-disable-uac-in-windows-10/