Access to hard drive

[Les Herrman]

This one has me stumped so far.

In XP I have always been able to give my account full control over all
folders etc on the hard drive. (Its an admin account)

Vista will not let me do this even when I log in with THE
administrator account.

What is up with this???

I know Vista has more security in it but not allowing me to have full
control over all files/folders on my system really ticks me off!

When I try to give myself full control on say the Program Files
hierarchy, vista just tells me access denied and wont do it. It will
let me do it on all other folders except the Windows one and the
Program Files one.

That is really starting to tick me off.

 

[Bill Frisbee]

Les,

What folders firstly. A lot of what you think may be folders in Vista are
redirects/pointers and not really folders.


I highly recommend you give this a read:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/WindowsVista/library/00d04415-2b2f-422c-b70e-b18ff918c281.mspx

Here is the important note: "Windows Vista protects %systemroot% files and
folders with permissions designed for Windows Resource Protection (WRP),
which can only be accessed by the System service. Administrators can read
system files and folders but cannot write to them. Note that this differs
from previous versions of Windows."

Things are changing with Vista, a lot of us (myself included) really do have
to learn some new ways to operate. This is a GOOD thing in the long run
because it means that the overhead for attack for Vista is going to be a lot
lower than previous versions of Windows.


Bill F.



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