Vista giving me trouble making bookmarks

[Robert]

I'm using Windows Vista, and its multiple layers of security are preventing
me from doing everyday normal things like bookmarking websites in my
"Favorites" folder.

If I merely want to mark a website as a favorite, Vista lets me do this.
However, I have a dozen different folders in my favorites, and I want to
save the website's URL in the proper folder. Vista currently won't let me do
this. When I try to save a URL in a favroites folder, I get a very vague
error message:

"Unable to create (name of website): Unspecified Error"

Not very helpful, huh?

Currently, I have an awkward way of getting around this. I save a website's
URL to my general Favorites folder, and then go to "Organize Favorites", and
then drag the URL to the proper folder within Favorites. Even this is a
headache, because when I do this Vista stops me:

"Destination Folder Access Denied: You'll need to provider Administrator
Permission to move this folder"

I hit "Continue", then Windows Vista gives me another warning: "Windows
Needs Your Permission to Continue". Only then will it actually move the URL
to the right folder.

All this seems excessively frustrating. Any ideas on how I can get reset my
system so that it lets me do this without a hassle? There are two accounts
on my PC, my wife's and my own. My wife's one may be the admin account.



Robert

 

[Ian Betts]

I'm using Windows Vista, and its multiple layers of security are
preventing me from doing everyday normal things like bookmarking websites
in my "Favorites" folder.

If I merely want to mark a website as a favorite, Vista lets me do this.
However, I have a dozen different folders in my favorites, and I want to
save the website's URL in the proper folder. Vista currently won't let me
do this. When I try to save a URL in a favroites folder, I get a very
vague error message:

"Unable to create (name of website): Unspecified Error"

Not very helpful, huh?

Currently, I have an awkward way of getting around this. I save a
website's URL to my general Favorites folder, and then go to "Organize
Favorites", and then drag the URL to the proper folder within Favorites.
Even this is a headache, because when I do this Vista stops me:

"Destination Folder Access Denied: You'll need to provider Administrator
Permission to move this folder"

I hit "Continue", then Windows Vista gives me another warning: "Windows
Needs Your Permission to Continue". Only then will it actually move the
URL to the right folder.

All this seems excessively frustrating. Any ideas on how I can get reset
my system so that it lets me do this without a hassle? There are two
accounts on my PC, my wife's and my own. My wife's one may be the admin
account.



Robert

If she is Admin then get her to go Control Panel/Users and click to turn
User Account Control OFF

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

"Unspecified error" when adding a link to Favorites in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blogs/...ing-a-link-to-Favorites-in-Windows-Vista.html

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I'm using Windows Vista, and its multiple layers of security are preventing
me from doing everyday normal things like bookmarking websites in my
"Favorites" folder.

If I merely want to mark a website as a favorite, Vista lets me do this.
However, I have a dozen different folders in my favorites, and I want to
save the website's URL in the proper folder. Vista currently won't let me do
this. When I try to save a URL in a favroites folder, I get a very vague
error message:

"Unable to create (name of website): Unspecified Error"

Not very helpful, huh?

Currently, I have an awkward way of getting around this. I save a website's
URL to my general Favorites folder, and then go to "Organize Favorites", and
then drag the URL to the proper folder within Favorites. Even this is a
headache, because when I do this Vista stops me:

"Destination Folder Access Denied: You'll need to provider Administrator
Permission to move this folder"

I hit "Continue", then Windows Vista gives me another warning: "Windows
Needs Your Permission to Continue". Only then will it actually move the URL
to the right folder.

All this seems excessively frustrating. Any ideas on how I can get reset my
system so that it lets me do this without a hassle? There are two accounts
on my PC, my wife's and my own. My wife's one may be the admin account.



Robert