Finding and Removing Orphaned SIDs in File Permissions, or: Busting the Ghosts Built Into Windows 7
Due to a lack of visibility permission cleanup is performed far less frequently than it could, and probably should. As a result, ghost ACEs (permissions from deleted accounts) linger in the dark corners of the file system, threatening the unsuspecting admin with the horrors of unresolvable SIDs.
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