EXACTLY!
I have been going nuts for a week now and even AFTER I have turned off the
UAC, I found I still couldn't get ALLL the Permissions I wanted.
It's MY computer and "I" want to be able to have access to anything I want.
I couldn't beleave Susan's reply, of "this is how it is and deal with it and
you have to change to the "new" way and do things that way and like it"
mentality.
People seem to be overlooking some VERY important things taht have to do
with this nonsense of "oversecuring" the system.
First, I agree, you should be able to put files anywhere you want on your
own computer whehterh others think it's a good idea or not.
But for me this is the issues.
I can't for the life of me get any sort of automated backups to ever REALLY
work, since the security keeps certain things in that ghosted mode.
And even with that, it took me all week before I was finally able to manage
to "mostly" get full access with permissions to ALLL of the files on my
computer, but still some I didn't get permissions for because they were "in
use".
But, once I got those permissions so taht I could actually for reals back up
the hidden, protected files, then I STILL couldn't get either Vista's backup
to back up those files nor could I use my Acronis software to do the job
either.
I can manually click and open the folders, which BTW, are always not only
ghosted, but also have that shortcut arrow on them and I searched and
searched and searched trying my best to find the REAL folders that were named
Documents and Settings LOL
Apparently they either really don't exist or what I suspect more is that
they too are hidden from me somewhere so taht I can't get access to them.
Sooo. my point about all this, is that it seems no matter what you do you
can't ever truly get complete permissions and Control over your own computer.
Which so far has been lame for me.
And this is with me turning OFF the UAC too!
And BTW, that thing gets very annoying after a while.
I sort of feel like that PC guy on the Mac vs PC commercials where the PC
has to constantly Agree to every little thing that happens on the computer LOL
And he finally has to Agree that he's come to a sad realization LOL
I of course don't want to have to come to any sort of sad realization, I
would rather just have this thing let me be god of my own computer and not
boss me around.
Thanx........................md