Hey,
I realize this was written back in 2012 but hopefully you will see this message. I've been having issues with windows booting to a black screen with pointer and thankfully I found your guide. "Icacls commands may take some time" is the understatement of the day when there are 30 of them to run. My DOS is very rusty but I'm wondering if you can run multiple lines of this at once recovery command prompt? Would it just be "COMMANDA & COMMANDB & COMMANDC"? i.e.
[NOPARSE]icacls Windows /t /c /grant SYSTEM:(M) & icacls Windows /t /c /grant SYSTEM:(F)[/NOPARSE]
Is this inadvisable?
Any help you can provide is hugely appreciated. Thanks again for the guide.
Cog