Vista - RE: "Administrator" Madness: How Do I Convince Vista?

09-27-2006

I'm am also having the very same problem, I even went so far as to reinstall
OS, worked fine for a few days, now bam...same problem again. Anyone have a
fix to this?

"tomorrows_man" wrote:

> I'm about to install RC1, but before I do I need to know what went wrong
> between 5384 and 5742. I installed 5384 and, buggy as it was, I never had
> administrator/access problems. Fast forward 10 weeks, I fresh install 5742,
> and suddenly I can't download a %^@! mp3 file from a pay service without
> getting a 'You do not have the right to save a fiel to that folder. Save to
> a temp folder instead?' type-error -- which, most often, would then tell me I
> couldn't save to the temp folder either.
>
> I understand security is a big issue in Vista, and I've been patiently
> dealing with User Access Management since June. But I have only one profile
> on this machine; so how can it not know I am the admin? Why would it deny me
> access to saving downloaded files in my own User > Documents folder? I have
> never tried to log/boot/access as anything else.
>
> I'm pretty savvy with this (not a tech, but a 'high end user'), and it
> baffles me how normals will muddle through the new access restrictions.
>
> T.M.

09-27-2006	#1 (permalink)
SmokeDaddy n/a posts	RE: "Administrator" Madness: How Do I Convince Vista? I'm am also having the very same problem, I even went so far as to reinstall OS, worked fine for a few days, now bam...same problem again. Anyone have a fix to this? "tomorrows_man" wrote: > I'm about to install RC1, but before I do I need to know what went wrong > between 5384 and 5742. I installed 5384 and, buggy as it was, I never had > administrator/access problems. Fast forward 10 weeks, I fresh install 5742, > and suddenly I can't download a %^@! mp3 file from a pay service without > getting a 'You do not have the right to save a fiel to that folder. Save to > a temp folder instead?' type-error -- which, most often, would then tell me I > couldn't save to the temp folder either. > > I understand security is a big issue in Vista, and I've been patiently > dealing with User Access Management since June. But I have only one profile > on this machine; so how can it not know I am the admin? Why would it deny me > access to saving downloaded files in my own User > Documents folder? I have > never tried to log/boot/access as anything else. > > I'm pretty savvy with this (not a tech, but a 'high end user'), and it > baffles me how normals will muddle through the new access restrictions. > > T.M.
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