How do you override system dictatorship?

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When i go to the mediaplayer directory, there is the "wmplayer.exe"
file, it is marked as "hidden"

Now if i right click on it and select properties, i can see the hidden
checkbox but it is disabled - ie i'm prevented from unhiding it. Even
though i'm administrator - this i don't like. Infact this i hate*. Now
of course i can bootup in win98 and change it, but isn't there some way
to get XP to do what i tell it, not the other way around?

(Just as i hate when you can't change a file association because its has
been grayed out)
 
Give yourself permission to change it. You hid it and you removed permissions from it. As standard All Admins, the system, and the admin who installed it have full permissions. It is also unhidden as standard.
 
Well. There's a great difference beetween a 'Home administrator' and a 'Proffesional Administrator'. Wich version of Win XP has our friend P. Burrows?
 
Normally there are three ways to control access permission to files. First it is NTFS permissions (if your file system is NTFS), second is Sharing permissions and finally security directives (local or domain). Home Edition offers limited access to NTFS permissions. For Home Edition only exists administrators and non-administrators. For sharing permissions Home edition only knows about private and shared (local or network users). Concluding. In Home Edition the System is a great dictator.
 
Yes you did. How do you think it happened. Windows didn't do it.

Type in Help

file permissions

read it carefully. If it says click here to ... then do it.
 
First, learn to quote properly. Second
Yes you did.
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NO! Don't be an idiot, i would know if i had changed the properties.
How do you think it happened. Windows didn't do it.
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Either something else changed it, or windows can sometimes do it, but
you don't know that it can.


Type in Help

file permissions

read it carefully. If it says click here to ... then do it.
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"Right-click the file or folder, click Properties, and then click the
Security tab. "

Except no security tab - ah.. of course Windows again defaults to hide
things.

"How to display it" ... didn't work - Ah, perhaps one has to reboot,
yeah, that's probably it!
 
P. Burrows said:
First, learn to quote properly. Second


NO! Don't be an idiot, i would know if i had changed the properties.


Either something else changed it, or windows can sometimes do it,
but
you don't know that it can.




"Right-click the file or folder, click Properties, and then click
the
Security tab. "

Except no security tab - ah.. of course Windows again defaults to
hide
things.

"How to display it" ... didn't work - Ah, perhaps one has to reboot,
yeah, that's probably it!
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If you are using Windows XP Professional, you must disable Simple File
Sharing to get the security tab.
 
ricky_j_53 said:
If you are using Windows XP Professional, you must disable Simple File
Sharing to get the security tab.
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I did that. But it didn't show up, not even after a reboot. Not if its
ment to be a seperate tab - i can set permissions on directories if i'm
sharing them, but no permissions otherwise, and never on single files.
 
You don't get a permission tab on Fat32 drives as they don't have permissions.
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Yep, that was the thing.

Funny though that "something" sets the hidden flag, and marks it as a
system file apparently, such as on the wmplayer.exe. Now i've noticed
the file "Thumbs.db" has also been set as "hidden" and you can't remove
the hidden flag (because it also has the "S" flag set? As in system?)

Peculiar, but no big deal.
 
Thumbs should be hidden.
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Sure, but to prevent the user from unhiding them seems silly (especially
since i can delete it) - But that's microsoft for you i guess.
 
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