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Administrator rights make it annoying to rename files

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guybrushT   11-01-2009 at 11:43:17 AM

Hi,

Just upgraded to windows 7 from the beta. I am having an annoying problem that when I try to rename and avi file an administrative rights message pops up and I have to click it to confirm that I want to rename the file. How can I turn this off? It didn't happen when I was using the beta.

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Silver Win 7 badge The_Prophecy   11-01-2009 at 11:56:07 AM
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Turning off UAC should sort that out. It's much less intrusive in Windows 7, but not quite there yet.

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guybrushT   11-01-2009 at 12:18:56 PM
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Thanks. How do I do that? I have never been a Vista user so this is new to me.

I have got to this window

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9486/capturenc.png

and putting the slider to the bottom does nothing. The message still comes up

thanks

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Silver Win 7 badge The_Prophecy   11-01-2009 at 12:22:13 PM
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Did you reboot after turning off UAC? Turning the feature completely off requires a reboot to take effect. Changing the level while still remaining on, does not.

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guybrushT   11-01-2009 at 12:34:28 PM
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cheers, just did a reboot and it all works.

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apache_lives   11-01-2009 at 12:53:54 PM
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if your a power user, UAC is useless - i dont like anything on my computer telling me what to do :D

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jsrudd   11-01-2009 at 04:45:33 PM
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I've been using Windows 7 for about 6 months and have never had a problem with renaming a file, unless it was in certain protected folder like /system32. Is this avi in a protected folder? Also your UAC could be set too high.

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Bronze Win 7 badge sminlal   11-01-2009 at 06:59:26 PM
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jsrudd wrote :

Is this avi in a protected folder?

Yeah, my reaction to this is that it's less of a UAC problem and more of a file management problem. I having a hard time understanding why you would need to store an AVI file in a folder that you didn't have full access to...

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