Hi,  I am running a surface Pro 3 with win 8.1 I have had to factory reset it once, but now it has these  problems.

The System has taken ownership of my folders and sub-folders and has been creating a maze of folders. It is replacing files with a desktop.ini fle  and an otherwise empty folder. I am getting access denied pop-ups and false errorrepports.

question- Now that I have taken ownership of one of thee user  folders, before I do anything else I need to know the answers to the following.

What do I do about two unknown accounts? they only have traverse, read, and execute as permission. What do I do about inheriting? Should the system have permission to take ownership? And lastly, if I took control specifically with my main account and am an Admin, then Admins should be left as can take ownership? (otherwise, If I understand it correctly, it would trump the allow to take ownership permission for me as an admin?) 

I know I could read up on it in your tutorials, but I  am a senior citizen. and have no patience left, nor the time to plow through all those tech pages and try to figure out what it all means. That is for the next generations. I am fortunate to understand as much as I do, and trouble shoot with success. 

Thank you in advance for your help to whoever has the answers.
Respectfully,
sandy

Hi,

What kind of folders are you referring to? Different folders can have different owner for different purposes, some system files are access denied by default even you're admin, it is designed for security. It's normal, for example, the "User" folder you have mentioned above, the "System" account should be the owner of the folder and you don't need to change it, please see my snapshot below:

Regarding to the unknown account, my guess is that its probably a user account from second OS or previous OS that has been removed or recently deleted because of the format action. Or if you doubt this, I recommend you run a virus scan incase some virus infection. Please also launch registry editor, then navigate to HKLM\Software\Microosft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList check if you can find user SID for the account.

For inherited permissions, they are those that are propagated to an object from a parent object, I think the following can be more clear than I described

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/cc726071.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396