Security Templates and File System Security

[Guest Broonie]

I've noticed that a lot of our domain PCs have screwed up permissions

on the C:\ drive which are inhertited all the way down the file

structure. I thought I would use the security templates for Vista (i'm

running vista but there is a mix of vista and xp) in conjunction with

the Security Analysis and Configuration and Security Templates tools

fix the perms on my own PC.

 

On looking at the templates (which i downloaded from the MS site along

with the security guide) i noticed that none of them have any entries

under the File System node. I was expecting to see entries for the

root of the C:\ drive, the Windows directory etc such that I could

reset my permissions to the default Vista ones. Is this not where to

look to do this and if not how can I set my permissions back to the

default automatically?

 

Also, I know I can set permissions of the file system through group

policy but I'm guessing that setting the permissions for the root of

the C:\ drive (and have those permissions all inherited down the

entire file structure) is not a good idea?