Administrator rights make it annoying to rename files

[Guest]

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.

Thanks

 

[The_Prophecy]

Turning off UAC should sort that out. It's much less intrusive in Windows 7, but not quite there yet.

 

[Guest]

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

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

thanks

 

[The_Prophecy]

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.

 

[Guest]

cheers, just did a reboot and it all works.

 

[apache_lives]

if your a power user, UAC is useless - i dont like anything on my computer telling me what to do

 

[jsrudd]

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.

 

[sminlal]

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...