Any computer user, regardless of the installed operating system, constantly sees the properties of the file in its simplest expression. This extension, which indicates the type of object and its correspondence to some application, defined or installed by default. However, if you dig deeper, the properties menu allows you to not only see the characteristics of an object, but also configure many other parameters, including permissions to access, edit, delete, etc.
Windows system file properties: how to call up the desired menu
As mentioned above, file properties can be seen immediately in any file manager, including the standard Windows Explorer. For example, if the display of extensions for registered file types is disabled, you can easily find out what kind of component is in front of you.
For example, the main executable files of software packages usually have the .exe extension, the accompanying dynamic libraries - DLLs, sound tracks - MP3 or another format, video - AVI, MP4, etc.
Sometimes, for convenience, in order not to show extensions, the system simply hides them. In this case, you can recognize the file properties simply by the icon (in any version of Windows, registered types are displayed just like that, if you turn on the icon display mode). But performance is far from the most important thing.
Property: file type. What can be found in the description
In the "Explorer" it is enough to call an additional menu with a right click and select the property bar in it . File properties are displayed immediately. But only brief information will be presented here, although it can give a lot. For example, the main menu will indicate the application to which the file is mapped to open by default. Here you can also see some additional parameters (setting the stealth, protection from editing and deleting, date of creation and last change, size, etc.).
On the tab of detailed characteristics you can see a lot of interesting things. In fact, if you compare with audio, this tab is a kind of ID3 tag, which indicates a lot of additional information about the file, its publisher, etc.
Change object properties
But far from all users know that changing some properties of a file can be quite simple. For example, in the same general tab, you can check the boxes for hiding the file or setting the "Read Only" parameter. What is this talking about?
In the first case, we are talking about the fact that an object will not be displayed in any file manager when the display of hidden objects is turned off. In the second case, the ban on any modification of the file up to deletion comes into force. If this attribute is applied, the system will simply issue a notification that access to the file is restricted or denied. But it is not all that bad.
File and Permission Management
Some parameters can be changed very simply. If you use the file properties even for Windows system components, which, it would seem, cannot be edited, you can access them. An example is the HOSTS file, which does not have an extension, but opens in the most ordinary Notepad. There are no problems with him.
But, when you want to open a file that critically affects the system, you will have to use the object's properties menu, where additional parameters are selected and the owner is changed, after which full rights to all available operations should be granted.
Please note: as a rule, this does not apply to user documents or installed programs and most likely refers to system files of the OS. Nevertheless, sometimes even on a network with shared access, using this menu, you can block an object from changing or deleting operations.
Instead of a total
It remains to add that many users of the properties menu of a particular object are simply underestimated, considering that here you can see only basic information regarding the basic properties or size. In fact, most files and folders can be managed from here, even if there are no administrator access rights. With all this, you don’t even need to rummage through the registry or in the Group Policy Editor to establish priority rights for a particular user. As already understood, the properties of the “file” object are such that they can not only be changed, but even map the file to a completely different application, which will open it by default with a double click.