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| | dinding things and installing stuff Vista is more difficult when it comes to finding things on your drive. I used to save downloaded programs in c:/program files, but vista will not allow me to do this, even as administrator. Any recommendations? Vista will not allow me to install hardly anything, like Nero 7, screensavers, webcam software, or my cellphone phonetools for my motorola cell phone, whick allows me to save pics I take with my cell, as well as the phonebook just in case my phone loses memory. I need advise smurfboy77 @ aol.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ile_management |
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| | Re: dinding things and installing stuff Even when you are logged into the system with your Administrator account, you will be running as a Standard User. This is part of the security in Vista. When you install a program, you can right click the installation file and select the Run As Administrator option from the pop-up menu. You should not have any problems creating folders, and moving or copying files to the C:\Program Files folder. What happens when you try this? As far as finding things on the drive, this is much easier and faster in Vista. Go to Start/Help and Support. Enter "Search" in the Search Help box and click the search icon. You will get a list of help topics that will get you up to speed on indexing and searching the hard drive. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "smurfboy W.VA." <smurfboy W.VA.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FC2728FD-AF99-48AD-9E47-CF4E47330F98@microsoft.com... > Vista is more difficult when it comes to finding things on your drive. I > used > to save downloaded programs in c:/program files, but vista will not allow > me > to do this, even as administrator. Any recommendations? Vista will not > allow > me to install hardly anything, like Nero 7, screensavers, webcam software, > or > my cellphone phonetools for my motorola cell phone, whick allows me to > save > pics I take with my cell, as well as the phonebook just in case my phone > loses memory. I need advise smurfboy77 @ aol.com > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ile_management |
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