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Am on a single person PC with Vista Home Premium 32. How do I allow myself
all permissions to EVERYTHING? I keep getting blocked reading or writing. I
have weasled my around some of it but not all and am quite through fighting
with it. Does it think i'm not signed in as administrator or what? What's
the easiest way to tell how you are signed in? I never had a permissions
problem in XP, what's going on?
 
Hi Kurt,

What are you having access problems with? By design, certain folder
structures, notably C:\Windows and C:\Program Files, are blocked from
writing/altering by user accounts to prevent infection by malware. Programs
and processes run from virtual directories within the user environment and
not the system environment. This is part of the security scheme used by
Vista.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
I will show you how to turn off all that, at the end of this.
The answers to your main questions "What's going on?", and "Am I
Administrator, or What?" are great points for a new Vista user to begin
understanding Vista's new 'paradigm' (way of thinking). My best way to
understand it for myself came when I realized that the UAC(User Access
Control) and Limited User status for any admin, (when in a normal user
role), were both efforts at the answer to the same issue that existed in XP.
Remember the 'Blaster Worm'? There was a message embedded it that, that said
something like 'Bill!, Fix your software!'. Well..., he did. :)
Not wanting to get too technical, I'll just say that what the Blaster used,
(RPC, Remote Procedure Call) is the basic building block of Distributed
Computing. (DCOM). If you are going to communicate, anywhere, anytime, you
use that. (and I do mean e-mail, web sites, downloaded apps, ... the
works).
Nobody wants to be a 'pushover' for the first punk with an agenda they
happen to run into on the web. The system should help you fend off such
trash. The UAC, and not operating with admin rights are your 'redoubt', your
last place to stand and fight.
Anti-spyware, and anti-virus apps are fine, but they are no less
restrictive, in their own way. Both of them operate from a standpoint I
prefer to avoid. It used to be called 'closing the barn door after the horse
has already gotten out'. I never though much of that chase.

You can turn off the UAC in the User Accounts app.

You can cause the Administrator account to appear on the Welcome screen, and
even use it by default, and without a password, if you choose.

Show default Administrator on Welcome screen
Go to Start/all programs/accessories/run, and type:
control userpasswords2
Advanced tab, Advanced button, Users folder, rightclick Administrator,
Properties, uncheck checkbox for "Account is disabled" (not available in
Home edition)
Restart Windows. (If Home edition, start in Safe Mode, F8 on restart, to be
the admin)

Add Take Ownership to right-click menu in Vista:
http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-ownership-context-menu-vista.htm
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Hello Kurt,
Vista has a function called UAC
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control) I suggest you visit my
link and read about it, in short on a Vista machine as administrator with
UAC you have two access token, one normal user and one admin user, you are
normal user unless you need to be more, then you elevate (depending of your
Local Security Settings you can elevate without password/notification etc...

To verify if you have administrator priviligde you can always look who is
member of the security group local Administrators.
 
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