Vista - What's file's full path and BIOS

Forgive my ignorance, I have a 2 part-question.(1) How do I find a file's full path. (2) What does BIOS stand for ,and a brief elaboration please. Thank you.

Hi David,

Q1) The files path will be in the Windows Explorer address bar the top. This can help more on this for you to.

Copy as Path - File or Folder


Q2) BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. You can get a full description of it here.

BIOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you, Shawn. As usual you are most helpful, espacially for a guy who is trying to self-teach himself. By the way I really enjoy your tutorials. I have a bit of problem with your "Take ownership", but that will be for next post.

Your welcome David. Just let me know when you post about "Take ownership". I'll see if I can help.

Shawn

Shawn, I have one problem on "file's full path". I can do all the steps except Paste. I tried to paste it on the Pictures folder ( just for testing out ), the "paste" was greyed out. Tried it on desktop, same result. The reason I asked for full path info was that I wanted to " take ownership " via cmd and takeown. I can see the full path on the address bar, so i can write it down. But why can't I paste it ? As to the method 2 of "take ownership", I got confused . If I have changed owner to my user account name at step 8, then why do I have to go on to step 9 -21 ? I don't have any formal training in computer science, so bear with me if I am confusing you as well. Thank you.

David,

Q1) The full path can only be pasted into some kind of text document or field entry box. You could write it down if you wanted to.

Q2) In Method 2 Option 2, step 8 just changes the owner of the item. Steps 9 to 21 shows you how to change the permission level to allow the new owner to modify the item.

Shawn

Thank you for the clarification.Funny way the programming works. I would have assumed that when one assumes ownership of an item, the level of permission should have been elevated accordingly And automatically.It should be a snap to do so, just like user account elevated to administrator account. Right ?

David,

It would be nice if it automatically would add the Full permission level to the item when changed to a new owner for the owner. After all, it is the owner now.

Shawn