Vista - Assigning permissions

I am logged in as an administrator but when I try to save a file to a
particular folder I am told "You don't have permission to save in this
location" and to contact the administrator to obtain permission.

I am the only user on this machine and would like to be able to save files
wherever I want but don't know how to give myself permission to do so. I've
looked at Permissions under help but can't find anything there to say how
permission is granted to a user.

Would appreciate your help.

Denis

You can't just save files anywhere in the system, there locations in the
System that are turned off from access by default. This is for security
reasons and you shouldn't even be wanting to Save files in System32 for
example. Use the default Content folders such as Documents, Pictures, Music,
Videos, Downloads and others or create your own person folders in one of
these designated locations.
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"Denis" <denis@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Denis wrote:Tell us where you are trying to save the file. Most problems of this
sort occur because the user is trying to write to a protected area of
the operating system such as Programs, Windows, etc.


Malke
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Hi Denis,

You may have better luck saving the file to a personal user folder first, then moving it to a location outside the personal user folders. Depending on where you are trying to save the file, you may need to take ownership of that location first. You may also need to be doing this in a Administrator account, or give Administrator password at the UAC prompt. This tutorial will show you how to take ownership.

Take Ownership of file

Shawn

But its not appropriate to encourage in saving in locations Microsoft has
designated as protected by the operating system. Yes, its the users system
and they should be free to do whatever they want with it, but you ultimately
putting OS in a compromising situation by taking ownership of certain
locations or turning of UAC. Its best the OP use the Personal folders that
is created within his or her account.

We need to have some basic principles.
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"brink" <brink.2zyal3@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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I have a dual boot machine with XP and Vista. I now use the Vista
installation as my main machine but occasionally need to save files to a
folder in the Program Files folder in the XP installation. For some reason
Vista treats this as a restricted location whereas XP had no objection to
files being saved there.

I can get round the problem by first saving the file in Documents and then
cutting and pasting it to the folder I want it to be in (Vista does not
object to this) but would prefer to save it directly to the folder in the
first place.


"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Program Files folder stores your installed applications, why would you
want to save personal files there? The Public Documents folder is more
appropriate for this, if you need to have files stored on the XP partition,
save them in the Shared Documents folder on the XP partition (x:\Documents
and Settings\All Users\Documents

I understand that you might want to keep the files private if you have
multiple users on both installations, but its better this way.
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"Denis" <denis@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Andre,

I agree it can be a security risk and that using the personal user folders is best, but sometimes you just need or want to be able to put a file in one of those locations for whatever reason. It would be safer if you changed the ownership of the file back to the default owner when done. I would only recommend doing it to just modifying a system file, not to store files. That is best used for the personal user folders.

Thank you for the notice,
Shawn

I appreciate what you are saying regarding saving personal files to Shared
Documents folder etc.

The reason I need to save files in XP\Program Files folder is that I had
installed a program when I was using XP which stored files created by the
program within a subfolder in Program Files and I need to add files to this
folder.

There is a work around so its not critical, but it would be nice to be able
to cut out the extra steps involved in saving the file first in Documents
and then cutting and pasting it to Program Files folder.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a dual boot machine with XP and Vista. I now use the Vista
installation as my main machine but occasionally need to save files to a
folder in the Program Files folder in the XP installation. For some reason
Vista treats this as a restricted location whereas XP had no objection to
files being saved there.

I can get round the problem by first saving the file in Documents and then
cutting and pasting it to the folder I want it to be in (Vista does not
object to this) but would prefer to save it directly to the folder in the
first place.


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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