Is support right about this (file system permissions)?

Question

Somebody in Adobe support says I need to go every one of these directories in Windows (10) Explorer and grand full permissions to the creator, owner, system, administrator, and user accounts.

" As per the chat interaction we would like to inform you to please follow the steps and try to give permissions You can give Permissions to Adobe folders by going to the following locations
>>C drive\Program files\Adobe
>>C drive\Program files\Common files\Adobe
>>C drive\Program files(86)\Common files\Adobe
>>C drive\Program files[86]\Adobe
>>C drive\Program data\ Adobe
Then you have to Right click on Adobe folder on each of the above mentioned locations ,then go to >> Properties>> Security>>Edit and check all the boxes you see And click ok.

"As mentioned in the chat once you click on edit then you have to choose Creator owner,System,Administrator,user and click on one by one on these four and check all the boxes that you see under the allow and then click on ok.Try doing these for all five locations to adobe folder."

Before I create potential security holes and put a lot of time in here, can anybody confirm that this makes sense and is a good idea? Seems extreme, but maybe it makes sense and I'm just failing to understand why so many different account would need those permissions.

Please advise.

Thanks,
-billb

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

The only one of these that's ever given trouble with Audition in the past is a lack of Administrator rights - which sometimes prevents any execution at all, and all you have to do to circumvent this is to right-click on the icon and select 'run as Administrator'. Shouldn't affect any of the other files that Audition needs access to though - as long as the user you are has permissions - which by default you would have.

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