administrator and administrators

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When I check my drives on mycomputer and select properties
then select the security tab, then advanced under owners
it shows administrator with a 1 person icon and it also
shows administrator(s) with a 2 person icon. Administrator
(s) is the owner of this access control setting. Is this
normal or should the owner be administrator. Thanks.
 
Hi MJ,

What you are seeing is the expected behavior. On NTFS drives, the default
setting for owners is Administrators localgroup of the machine and the user
that created the folder. This is so if the user forgets their
password/loses it, etc a user in the Administrators group can recover access
for them.

Thx,
Nico Tomacelli
Microsoft Corp.
US - Windows Core:SOLID

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