Windows 11 Jump lists no longer working after changing root c:\ permissions

[OstinatoFreak]

I was writing a batch file that did a lot of reading and writing to small text files, and I wanted to speed that up by writing to my SSD, which is my root C drive, so after Googling the access denied error I was receiving when trying to write there, I changed the ownership of my entire C:\ drive and all files on it, and changed permissions to Full Access for my user (I'm the only user on the machine and I'm the administrator, but I wasn't the "Owner" of C:\). After restarting the computer, not only did this not fix the problem (I still can't write to the C:\ drive from a batch file), now when

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