Cannot delete in Vista

Hello,

I am having a small problem and I thought I would check here before sending
a bug report. I want to make sure I am not at fault.

When I install programs from my normal user account, I get asked to provide
the administrator password to continue. I provide the password and the
install will continue normally.

When I go to delete the icons that were installed on my desktop I am asked
again to provide the administrator password. I provide the password and the
deletion continues. Now the problem is that the icons that I just deleted
are still on the desktop.

If I log into the actual administrator account I can delete the icons with
no problems. This also happens with any other files that I don't normally
have permissions with my normal user account. I provide the administrator
password and nothing happens.

Is this a bug or something I am doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.

Apparently this is one of the so called "improved security" features, to
truly delete a file you have to be in adminstrative mode. Hopefully this
feature will be removed from the home variants of the OS.

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A8R-MVP Del X2 3800 XFX 7900GTX 2GB Corsair etc
XP sp2/Vista Beta 2


"Allenb" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having a small problem and I thought I would check here before sending
> a bug report. I want to make sure I am not at fault.
>
> When I install programs from my normal user account, I get asked to provide
> the administrator password to continue. I provide the password and the
> install will continue normally.
>
> When I go to delete the icons that were installed on my desktop I am asked
> again to provide the administrator password. I provide the password and the
> deletion continues. Now the problem is that the icons that I just deleted
> are still on the desktop.
>
> If I log into the actual administrator account I can delete the icons with
> no problems. This also happens with any other files that I don't normally
> have permissions with my normal user account. I provide the administrator
> password and nothing happens.
>
> Is this a bug or something I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>