Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate Warning

A folder that is created under the root of the system drive is missing entries in its security descriptor, which may cause some application failures on the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate.

In the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) 32-bit Ultimate, the folder that is created as the root folder of the system drive (%SystemDrive%) is missing entries in its security descriptor. One effect of this problem is that standard users such as non-administrators cannot perform all operations to subfolders that are created directly under the root. Therefore, applications that reference folders under the root may not install successfully or may not uninstall successfully. Additionally, operations or applications that reference these folders may fail.

For example, if a folder is created under the root of the system drive from an elevated command prompt, this folder will not correctly inherit permissions from the root of the drive. Therefore, some specific operations, such as deleting the folder, will fail when they are performed from a non-elevated command prompt. Additionally, the following error message appears when the operation fails:

full info below
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970789

 

So basically if I create a folder in c:\ that folder will stay there forever? Or is it a sporadic bug? Because that would mean that you shouldn't even be able to delete softwares if you upgraded to w7 x86....

 

There's a hotfix available, this isn't the end of the world...

 

so, if a virus gets into a folder in c:\, we won't be able to remove them???

 

The fix was pushed to Windows Update for Windows 7 yesterday, this is no longer an issue.