Permissions

[Johnny Fosse]

Is there anyway to be able to access everything on my computer? I am
running as admin., but I can't access a lot of things.

Thanks
Kathy

Is there anything I can take for my pain doc? It hurts in a lotta
places.

 

[t-4-2]

In most cases, you can access to files/programs by Right click on the item,
click Run As Administrator.
t-4-2

 

[Kathy]

Is there anyway to be able to access everything on my computer? I am
running as admin., but I can't access a lot of things.

Thanks
Kathy

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Is there anyway to be able to access everything on my computer? I am
running as admin., but I can't access a lot of things.

Thanks
Kathy

I'm sorry, but could you possibly be a bit more specific? What,
specifically, can you not access?

No one can help if you don't provide at least a modicum of pertinent
information.

Help us help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375



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Bruce Chambers

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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Sorry. It is things like doc.and settings,

In Vista, "Documents and Settings" really isn't a folder. It's what's
called a "junction point" that's used only to redirect legacy (those
designed before Vista) applications to the equivalent Vista locations.
Think of it as a "virtual" folder; it's not real. It cannot be accessed.

under users there are some.

Again, you'll have to be specific.

What I would like to know id there anyway to be able to access everything?

Certainly, but without knowing the specifics, it's not possible to
provide an answer.

I find it very irritating that on my own computer I can't access things,
or if I am able to change permissions etc. it takes forever. I wqould
like to just access everything like I could in XP.

Again, you can.


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Kathy]

Sorry. It is things like doc.and settings, under users there are some.
What I would like to know id there anyway to be able to access everything?
I find it very irritating that on my own computer I can't access things, or
if I am able to change permissions etc. it takes forever. I wqould like to
just access everything like I could in XP.

Kathy

 

[Gordon]

Again, you'll have to be specific.

There are at least two if not more, junction points in each Users
account....I bet that's what the OP is talking about.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is there anyway to be able to access everything on my computer? I am
running as admin., but I can't access a lot of things.

Please be very specific about what it is that you can't access, but
want to. Also please explain *why* you want to access these things and
what you plan on doing with them.

 

[Jack the Ripper]

Is there anyway to be able to access everything on my computer? I am
running as admin., but I can't access a lot of things.

Thanks
Kathy

Like what?

 

[Frank Holman]

Like what?

She keeps saying "things" and "everything".

I think she's a blonde ;-)

 

[Bruce Chambers]

There are at least two if not more, junction points in each Users
account....I bet that's what the OP is talking about.

You're probably correct, but we won't know if she doesn't respond.


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[FromTheRafters]

[...]

I find it very irritating that on my own computer I can't access things,
or if I am able to change permissions etc. it takes forever. I wqould
like to just access everything like I could in XP.

So, you ran all the time in XP as administrator probably. Don't feel
bad, you weren't the only one by far. In fact it is because of the ease
of doing this in XP that they created Vista's default 'Protected Admin'
account (and hid the real one).

Yes, it is possible to run Vista with as poor an eye toward security
as was done with XP.

You can disable User Account Control
You can disable Mandatory Integrity Control
You can activate, unhide, and use the real Administrator account
(which is supposed to be immune to UAC I believe)

....none of the above are recommended.

What *is* recommended is to work within the constraints of Vista's
security scheme.

 

[JerryM]

Another look at the system including other drives is to right click CMD.EXE
and select run as administrator.
This will take you to the ROOT directory where you can see all the files and
directories on the drives.

Jerry

 

[JerryM]

Be sure to type CD\ and hit enter to put you in C: drive

 

[Guest]

She keeps saying "things" and "everything".

I think she's a blonde ;-)

Well, I'm definitely NOT a blonde...and I have the same issues.
I want access to EVERYTHING. What's so hard to understand about that?
EVERYTHING!!! If there's something I can't access, that's what I want
access to.

I don't want anybody telling me I can't do something...ever.
You're allowed to enable as much security as you find helpful.
I should be allowed to enable as little security as I find helpful...
that being NONE!!!

You want an example? I want to delete a gigabyte of restore points
before I image the partition.
I've had so much hassle with this, that I can't remember exactly, but
as I recall, I was unable to copy a license file into
a subdirectory of "program files".
I couldn't delete a bunch of stuff in "documents and settings".

Depending on how a directory got created, I may or may not be able
to access it directly of have it indirectly accessed by a program.
Changing the permissions on a file doesn't seem to help, but changing
the permissions on the parent directory and it's contents seems to
work...maybe...I'm very confused.

I don't want to hear about why I shouldn't do it. You have your reasons
to do whatever you want. I have MY reasons to do whatever I want...and
I WANT ACCESS TO MY COMPUTER!!!!! I don't want to justify it to you
or anyone else. I want to know HOW to do it.

Over the last few months, I have been able to open up permissions and get
access to most stuff, but I couldn't tell you how I did it...just played
with settings until it worked.

While I'm on a RANT!!! I also want the converse. I DON'T WANT
WINDOWS DOING STUFF THAT I DIDN'T ASK FOR.
I don't want anything automatically updating.
I especially don't want anything updating after I unchecked the
"update automatically" check box. There's some interesting stuff posted
about how loosely M$ interprets your grant of permission to invade your
computer.
I don't want any program accessing
the web for any reason except Firefox and Thunderbird.
I don't want anything to happen when I insert a CD. I don't want my
music indexed, I don't want my files indexed, I don't want ANYTHING
to happen automatically. Gimme a check box or three to enable stuff if
I want it.
There is no reason for media player to run at all. WMPlayer accessing
the web for any reason is unacceptable.

Before you tell me I can disable autoplay, let me say that it doesn't
work for me. When I plug in a flash drive, wmplayer.exe starts running.
It prevents safely removing some, but not every flash drive. And it
ties up my CD drive so I can't burn a CD without starting task manager
and killing wmplayer.exe. There's no excuse for that. I don't want
wmplayer.exe to run EVER. If you delete the file, and the prefetched
copy and the restore points...wmplayer.exe still comes back. GRRRRR!!!.


I gotta go take a blood pressure pill...maybe two!!!
Hang in there, Kathy...you're not alone. Don't take their
dismissive tone personally. They get that way from dealing with the likes
of me.

 

[Gordon]

I couldn't delete a bunch of stuff in "documents and settings".

<sigh. that's because "Documents and Settings" is a JUNCTION POINT, a
SYMBOLIC LINK. It doesn't contain anything. It points to the Vista
equivalent so that legacy XP apps will work.
I suggest you get to know how Vista works, rather than ranting on about how
it's not like XP....

 

[Guest]

<sigh. that's because "Documents and Settings" is a JUNCTION POINT, a
SYMBOLIC LINK. It doesn't contain anything. It points to the Vista
equivalent so that legacy XP apps will work.
I suggest you get to know how Vista works, rather than ranting on about
how it's not like XP....

Sigh all you want. I can tell you that with stock Vista, I couldn't do
much in documents and settings.
After messing around with it for a long time, I now have full access to
the whole tree. Doesn't seem to matter which are links and which are real
files/directories...that part just works like I expect it to.

I'm sure there are many valid reasons for locking down a system
so Joe the data-entry guy can't mess up the system. Just gimme
a way to work around all that for MY system.
I can live with a (very) limited amount of "are you sure you wanna do that?"
I won't tolerate "NO!".

 

[Dave]

You're the type of person that MS is trying to protect the rest of us
from....

 

[Dave Warren]

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Sigh all you want. I can tell you that with stock Vista, I couldn't do
much in documents and settings.

That's because "Documents and Settings" doesn't exist anymore, it's just
a junction pointing to the new paths.

After messing around with it for a long time, I now have full access to
the whole tree. Doesn't seem to matter which are links and which are real
files/directories...that part just works like I expect it to.

I'm sure there are many valid reasons for locking down a system
so Joe the data-entry guy can't mess up the system. Just gimme
a way to work around all that for MY system.
I can live with a (very) limited amount of "are you sure you wanna do that?"
I won't tolerate "NO!".

There is never a no, but rather, it's a case of "if you don't know how
to get around it, you probably shouldn't be touching it"

 

[Mike Torello]

You're the type of person that MS is trying to protect the rest of us
from....

No. MS is trying to protect the user from him(her)self.

I don't need a nanny.