How do I get read permissions?

When you add a new employee to your network, the network administrator establishes a user account and assigns an employee to one or more groups to make it easier to share files within a workgroup or department. When an employee shares files, he can select individual users or a group of users and assign read-only or read-write access. Files and folders inherit the same permissions as their parent folders. For greater control, a user can share files and assign five standard permissions individually to each user or group. Advanced users can assign 13 permissions and can modify how permissions are inherited from parent folders.

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Standard Permissions
Advanced Permissions
1] Change user account type
2] Take full control over your file/folder/drive
3] Scan PC for malware
How do I add read permissions?
How do you get read permissions to view Properties of an object?
How do I enable read permissions in Windows?
What are read permissions?

Standard Permissions

Launch the File Explorer and navigate to the folder containing the folder or files that need changes to their permissions.
Right-click a folder or file and choose "Properties." Click the "Security" tab.
Click "Edit..." to grant or deny the five standard permissions for each group or user that has access to the file: Full Control; Modify; Read and Execute; Read; and Write. Click the user or group name in the box at the top of the window and then click to check the "Allow" or "Deny" box for each of the five permissions.
Click "Add..." to add a group or user that's not listed. Select the group or user name and then check the "Allow" or "Deny" box to establish the correct security for the new group or user.
Click to highlight a group or user in the top window and click "Remove" to revoke all permissions for that group or user for this file or folder.
Click "OK" to save your changes or "Cancel" to exit without saving them.

Advanced Permissions

Click the "Advanced" button on the Security tab to assign special permissions or modify permission inheritance. Click "Change Permissions" on the Advanced Security Settings window.
Click to select a user or group from the list of permission entries. Select "Edit..." to grant or deny each of the 13 permission levels: Full Control; Traverse Folder/Execute File; List Folder/Read Data; Read Attributes; Read Extended Attributes; Create Files/Write Data; Create Folders/Append Data; Write Attributes; Write Extended Attributes; Delete; Read Permissions; Change Permissions; Take Ownership. Click "OK" to save your changes.
Click to uncheck the "Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent" box, if you are unable to change any of the 13 permission levels for the file or folder because they are all inherited from a parent folder. Select "Add" or "Remove" to assign the inherited permissions to this file or folder or choose "Remove" to remove all permissions that were inherited. Click "Edit..." to modify each permission specifically for the user and file or folder you've selected. Click "OK" to save your changes or "Cancel" to undo them.
Click "Add..." and select a new user or group to add permissions to the file or folder. Accept the default permissions that the user inherits from its parent or assign permissions individually if you unchecked the inheritance box. Click "OK" to save your changes or "Cancel" to ignore them.
Highlight a group or user in the permission entries and click "Remove" to remove all permissions for that group or user. Click "Remove" if you've added a new user and decide when you're assigning permissions that you don't want to add the user, because the Cancel button will only affect permission assignments and won't cancel the act of adding the user to the list.
Click the "Effective Permissions" tab and select a group or user whose permissions you modified. Review the resulting permissions that will be granted to the user based on your changes and other Windows security settings.
Click "OK" one last time to save all permissions for this file or folder.

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While trying to change some security-related settings, if Windows 10 displays a message You must have Read permissions to view the properties of this object error message; then these suggestions will help you get around it.

You must have Read permissions to view the Properties of this Object error message generally appears when you right-click on the C or system drive and go to the Security tab to manage or configure various security-related settings. However, the same can appear in any other folder’s Security tab, based on what settings or account you are using. For your information, it is a permission-related issue and similar to You do not have permission to view this object’s security properties, even as an administrative user error.

To fix this issue; follow these tips and tricks:

Change user account type
Take full control over your file/folder/drive
Scan PC for malware

Let’s check out the detailed version for better help.

1] Change user account type

To access a particular folder, you might require to have an Administrator account. Coming to the solution, if you have a Standard account, you can try using an Administrator account to perform the same task. Now you have two options – one, you can enable a hidden Administrator account, and two, you can change a Standard user to the Administrator account.

2] Take full control over your file/folder/drive

Having full ownership of files and folders might be required to access different settings when the system administrator implements various restrictions. However, as the Security tab is not allowing you to get that, you can use the best possible substitute. Switch to the Sharing tab, and click the Advanced Sharing button.

Tick the Share this folder checkbox, and click the Permissions button.

You have to tick the Full Control checkbox under the Allow heading and click the OK button.

Once all the settings are saved, try to make the same change as you were trying to do earlier.

TIP: Ultimate Windows Tweaker will let you add the Take Ownership of Files and Folders easily to Windows 10 context menu.

3] Scan PC for malware

If you haven’t changed anything, installed any third-party software, created any user account, it is better to scan your entire system with an anti-malware or adware removal tool. They can often tweak internal settings to make obstacles, blocking users from performing a specific task. Now, there are several free portable standalone antivirus software available – and you can use any of them, which suits your needs.

That’s all! These are some of the standard solutions to fix this issue. Hope they help.

Read next: Lost Administrator Rights in Windows 10.

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How do I add read permissions?

To change file and directory permissions, use the command chmod (change mode). The owner of a file can change the permissions for user ( u ), group ( g ), or others ( o ) by adding ( + ) or subtracting ( - ) the read, write, and execute permissions.

How do you get read permissions to view Properties of an object?

"You must have Read Permission to view the properties of this object"..

Right click the folder and go to the Properties window..

Go to the Security tab on the Properties Window..

Click Advanced..

Go to Change..

Type in my Windows Username. ... .

Click OK..

How do I enable read permissions in Windows?

Right click on the folder that is having trouble saving files and go to Properties..

On the Security tab, click Edit to change the permissions..

Select the admin user in the Group or User Names section..

Put a checkmark on Allow full control..

What are read permissions?

Read permission means that the user may see the contents of a directory (e.g. use ls for this directory.) Write permission means that a user may create files in the directory. Execute permission means that the user may enter the directory (i.e. make it his current directory.)