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Monkey God
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So ive been using Vista Ultimate 64 for a month or so now, overall I like it.
One of the things I find *hugely* annoying is the way UAC works, the annoyance factor is huge. But I digress.
Anyways, the thing I want to ask about is File Permissions...every time I try to rename or move a folder (no matter where it is!) im almost always being denied. It never gives me a specific error, just something like not authorized. Sometimes, files seem to be magically read-only for no reason, and when I de-click read only, it *takes it* like its going to work, but then resets back to read only. These are not system files, just stuff in my documents folder. WTF?
My user account is an Administrator account, and my name shows up as a owner on the files/folders in question. Changing ownership does nothing. The only thing that seems to help is give "everyone" full permissions, which I know is not very secure. Whats the problem here, am I doing something wrong? Its highly annoying because everytime I try to change permissions or do something, I get stupid UAC popups asking for permission, but it never actually does anything.
Also, one thing about UAC, if you are an Administrator, why does it always ask for Administrator approval to do anything? I thought the point of that was if you were a user. If your login is setup as an administrator, why do I need to approve manually every damn thing? Is that the point of UAC? Annoy the shit out of you so you don't make any changes?
I applaud Microsofts desire to improve security, but they need to be careful of making it so annoying people want to pull their hair out. Last night all I was trying to do was move some folders and rename some files (in my documents folder!!!) and I was ready to format the damn thing back to XP 32. I still may do that. There's only a few real things in Vista I like that XP doesn't provide.
Am I missing something obvious? To whom should file ownership reside, the System? My account? Whats the least hair pulling way to manage all this?
One of the things I find *hugely* annoying is the way UAC works, the annoyance factor is huge. But I digress.
Anyways, the thing I want to ask about is File Permissions...every time I try to rename or move a folder (no matter where it is!) im almost always being denied. It never gives me a specific error, just something like not authorized. Sometimes, files seem to be magically read-only for no reason, and when I de-click read only, it *takes it* like its going to work, but then resets back to read only. These are not system files, just stuff in my documents folder. WTF?
My user account is an Administrator account, and my name shows up as a owner on the files/folders in question. Changing ownership does nothing. The only thing that seems to help is give "everyone" full permissions, which I know is not very secure. Whats the problem here, am I doing something wrong? Its highly annoying because everytime I try to change permissions or do something, I get stupid UAC popups asking for permission, but it never actually does anything.
Also, one thing about UAC, if you are an Administrator, why does it always ask for Administrator approval to do anything? I thought the point of that was if you were a user. If your login is setup as an administrator, why do I need to approve manually every damn thing? Is that the point of UAC? Annoy the shit out of you so you don't make any changes?
I applaud Microsofts desire to improve security, but they need to be careful of making it so annoying people want to pull their hair out. Last night all I was trying to do was move some folders and rename some files (in my documents folder!!!) and I was ready to format the damn thing back to XP 32. I still may do that. There's only a few real things in Vista I like that XP doesn't provide.
Am I missing something obvious? To whom should file ownership reside, the System? My account? Whats the least hair pulling way to manage all this?
