"Access denied" a gross overreach

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In my opinion Microsoft has made a serious misjudgement in its zeal to
improve security in Vista. My home might be safer if every outside and
inside door were locked but it would be unbearable to live there. I have
three folders in a drive that I use for data that I just cannot delete,
despite many wanderings through account permissions, security tabs and
subtabs. Let's rekey the whole house, removing the locked inside doors and
just leaving good locks on the front and back doors. What were they
thinking? That is rhetorical - I have read their stuff. :-)
 
Couldn't agree more.

It's a sad day when I can't delete or move non-system-critical files from
certain areas on my PC.

After all it is MY pc.
 
Do you see any light at the end of the tunnel?

Paul said:
Couldn't agree more.

It's a sad day when I can't delete or move non-system-critical files from
certain areas on my PC.

After all it is MY pc.
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One advantage of dual booting with a previous operating system
is that in situations like this, you just reboot into the other OS,
and bye-bye undeleteable file. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
when you say, "Oh yeah, watch this", as you reboot into the
other OS. Also works with dual XP installations in separate
partitions.
 
Yes, I can do that as that is how I have it set up. But then I installed
Vista to take advantage of improvements. What is wrong with this picture?
 
Use the icacls command from an elevated command prompt to take ownership
then change the permissions.
 
Use the icacls command from an elevated command prompt to take ownership
then change the permissions.
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In the words of the two principle Microsoft software engineers
directly responsible for giving us UAC, commenting on unexplained
prompts and nag screens that shouldn't be there, but are anyway in a
very revealing 64 minute channel 9 interview said:

Paraphasing:

"It ain't suppose to do that, please let us know if you have
problems."

Proving once again Microsoft doesn't really know how to write good
software if the best they can do is admit, hey we know it's broke,
please tell us about it.

ROTFLMAO!
 
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