I used to a VMS development engineer and I only had one accident (early in my career). The NON-Elective nature of Windows is really starting to get to me. Today I was on a separate disk and the file system told me to contract the administrator....only I am, and always have been the administrator. On VMS I always ran with Bypass privileges and I didn't regret it. Please, is there not some way to turn this Jerk water file security off? Renee

"Renee Culver" wrote in message news:31d76d4e-bd63-4d4f-a1e2-ee00b9f36f42... I used to a VMS development engineer and I only had one accident (early in my career). The NON-Elective nature of Windows is really starting to get to me. Today I was on a separate disk and the file system told me to contract the administrator....only I am, and always have been the administrator. On VMS I always ran with Bypass privileges and I didn't regret it. Please, is there not some way to turn this Jerk water file security off? Renee Please give more exact details of the error message - you must surely realise that context and detail are of primary importance here. 'contact the administrator' usually means that there is a permissions failure - have you checked that? -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

When I first try to access my Win7 partition from Vista (or vice versa), I'm greeted with this lovely dialog to make it permanent. Permanent? It doesn't give a hint... It doesn't give a hint that it will spend the next 5 minutes rifling through the entire User folder, contaminating every single file with Account Unknown ACEs like this. Who is this uninvited visitor, you later wonder with alarm. Is my filesystem corrupted? Have I been hacked? Who are these phantoms lurking in my computer? Oh. Nevermind. I figured it out. After awhile. You can safely ignore them. Pretend they're not there. They not bad. They hardly make any noise.

Mine doesn't do that. Besides that you must talk to the Aministratorato messages and I am the administrator, my system will not delete directories either with Explorer or in CMD mode. I have a feeling I know why. I have a 260 GB ssd. After I wrote all the files out (backups) I functionally lost a system disk, so I put another copy in. Now i had a different GUID and was now longer "the owner" numerically. But I can delete my own files. Come to think of it, I haven't tried on any thing but the C: drive although I have done some development on H:, but I bet I have creat those main directories. Renee

You see, I dont need all this security. If I hhas RWED in S,O,G W that would be fine. And Derosnec's a scream..... Renee

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I did but that was not the correct syntax for C:. Renee

Sounds like you want to disable UAC, Renee. I'm like you; I prefer to be in control and not have the computer protecting itself from me. I know what I'm doing, and I know EXACTLY what UAC does and doesn't buy me. Instead of running with lowly user privileges on the outside chance that I'll run something or do something dangerous, I control what I run and do. Here's how to disable UAC: Click Start, then type UAC into the search box. When Change User Account Control Settings comes up, click it. Drag the slider to the bottom to disable UAC entirely Reboot With UAC disabled, you run full-time with Administrator privileges (assuming your account is in the Administrators group). And let's not even talk about the ridiculous file system magic that's enabled by UAC (i.e., where you think things are being written in one place, but they're really in another). -Noel

Neil, Disabling the UAC was the first thing I did months ago. And I cant delete directories I just added with VS. So that's one theory we're done with because NEW directories can't be deleted therefore the directory was created with the proper user ID (GUID). Even now however on Win 7, when I look at the properties of the directory, I see that the "read-only" attribute is on and although I can turn it off (by turning the read-only attribute off and pushing the "apply" button), it'd on the next time I activate that directory property. I still can't turn it off although I would dearly love too. And that's the trouble with windows 7 as far a I can tell. When I try to delete a directory with Explorer, I receive a "you need permission from the computers Administrator to make changes to this folder." error. I agree, it is totally ridiculous. They need a way to turn off the damned protections. Renee

"Renee Culver" wrote in message news:bc41acce-d261-4f1e-9d3f-c2b80ccdf536... Neil, Dontcha just hate it when people do that, Noel? :) -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

I'm sorry Noel. Do you apologize for your error? Renee

"Renee Culver" wrote in message news:3793fdb2-9b8c-4d3d-bd8c-0b16e560fdfb... I'm sorry Noel. Do you apologize for your error? Renee Which one? - I make so many..... :) -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

Thinking I was naive enough to leave the UAC on. I am a former VMS developer. Renee

I want to amend the statement. I cannot delete new directorries I created. Renee

"Renee Culver" wrote in message news:3c9c8d57-8c08-44a5-be1e-09ba8d12ee55... Thinking I was naive enough to leave the UAC on. I am a former VMS developer. Renee I never mentioned UAC - all I said was that it was probably a permissions problem, and we needed more details. -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

Wow! Im sorry again. "Sounds like you want to disable UAC, Renee. " There are two Noels in this thread. It is a protection problem and what details do you need? Renee

Well....I solved it. "Delete Folders and Files" was not checked in that Disk name although the system did say that it would delete all files. Renee