So, today I had to deal with Windows deciding that it did not want to allow me to have all of the permissions that I should have to my machine. It was more than a little annoying. Fortunately, I am an admin. Unfortunately, the machine was convinced that admin privileges weren’t good enough for some deeply nested temp files. Of course, since I’m dealing with Sitecore, that meant that I could not properly run the site. Joy. I did eventually solve the problem, though. There is a command called icacls which let one change the permissions of a given file or, if used with the /T flag, an entire directory tree:

icacls {filename} /grant {username}:{permission} /T