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What the hell is Vista doing to me?

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TheCrackedJack

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I had this problem before and I had put my user name as the owner and allow all permissions on both drives. However, now it says that I don't have permissions to move my files on my external hard drive around. I check and my user name is gone from the groups. Why does it keep disappearing? Can I remove all this group, user name BS and just allow everything?
 
Does turning on Simple File Sharing help? (Explorer->Tools->Folder Options->View Tab->Last checkbox) Maybe take ownership of the files one more time first.

Edit... doh, didn't see the Vista part. Disregard 😛
 
If you want to allow almost everything, you can try giving your account administrator priveledges. Do this by loggin in to the administrator account, picking the add user acount option from the welcome screen, selecting the add/delete users option from the account screen, then picking your main account. From that menu, pick "change account type", and select "administrator". After that, your main account will be an admin and you might have less permission issues.

But if you really want to nuke the permissions stuff, you can disable UAC (User Account Control). Do this as above from your administrator account, but from the main account management screen, select the "disable User Account Control" option (I think that's what the option is called), and I think it should behave like XP.
 
Originally posted by: LintMan
If you want to allow almost everything, you can try giving your account administrator priveledges. Do this by loggin in to the administrator account, picking the add user acount option from the welcome screen, selecting the add/delete users option from the account screen, then picking your main account. From that menu, pick "change account type", and select "administrator". After that, your main account will be an admin and you might have less permission issues.

But if you really want to nuke the permissions stuff, you can disable UAC (User Account Control). Do this as above from your administrator account, but from the main account management screen, select the "disable User Account Control" option (I think that's what the option is called), and I think it should behave like XP.
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Thanks, but I was already the admin and had UAC off whenever the stuff that I described happened. That's why I was so confused.
 
Originally posted by: TheCrackedJack
Originally posted by: LintMan
If you want to allow almost everything, you can try giving your account administrator priveledges. Do this by loggin in to the administrator account, picking the add user acount option from the welcome screen, selecting the add/delete users option from the account screen, then picking your main account. From that menu, pick "change account type", and select "administrator". After that, your main account will be an admin and you might have less permission issues.

But if you really want to nuke the permissions stuff, you can disable UAC (User Account Control). Do this as above from your administrator account, but from the main account management screen, select the "disable User Account Control" option (I think that's what the option is called), and I think it should behave like XP.
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Thanks, but I was already the admin and had UAC off whenever the stuff that I described happened. That's why I was so confused.
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I read that with the UAC off , it will cause some permissions problem. I was installing adobe reader 8, it gave me some error about a temp folder out of space and somethen about permissions. I was reading on the the adobe forms, they said this issue is due to UAC being turn off. I dunno how having the UAC being off can cause this problem.
 
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
Originally posted by: TheCrackedJack
Originally posted by: LintMan
If you want to allow almost everything, you can try giving your account administrator priveledges. Do this by loggin in to the administrator account, picking the add user acount option from the welcome screen, selecting the add/delete users option from the account screen, then picking your main account. From that menu, pick "change account type", and select "administrator". After that, your main account will be an admin and you might have less permission issues.

But if you really want to nuke the permissions stuff, you can disable UAC (User Account Control). Do this as above from your administrator account, but from the main account management screen, select the "disable User Account Control" option (I think that's what the option is called), and I think it should behave like XP.
Click to expand...

Thanks, but I was already the admin and had UAC off whenever the stuff that I described happened. That's why I was so confused.
Click to expand...

I read that with the UAC off , it will cause some permissions problem. I was installing adobe reader 8, it gave me some error about a temp folder out of space and somethen about permissions. I was reading on the the adobe forms, they said this issue is due to UAC being turn off. I dunno how having the UAC being off can cause this problem.
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I don't know if that's it. I got the same error as you did when I had UAC off, but I fixed it by turning the compat. to XP Service Pack 2. I think that's strictly an issue with Acrobat not fully supporting vista.
 
Check all permissions, not just your own when having problems moving files.

Vista does indeed have Everyone: Deny-List in some places.
 
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