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decoy26517   11-23-2007 at 01:44:22 AM

I've been using Vista for about a month now and something that has really REALLY gotten under my skin is that auto "read only" setting for folders/directories. Furthermore when I try to turn it off I get a "You will need to provide administrative permission to change these attributes" error. Now its understandable that only administrators should be allowed to perform system actions and such, but the problem is I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR. Infact, there is only 1 account on this machine and it does have the administrative access. But whenever I try to change some kind of folder option it says I am not the administrator.

Is there anyway to fix this or am I doomed?

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itotallybelieveyou   11-23-2007 at 02:09:50 AM
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doomed. srry. Your cpu might be better then mine but mine is hotter

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x_2fast4u_x   11-26-2007 at 05:27:09 PM
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I get the same problem... i cant find a souliton

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ohiou_grad_06   11-27-2007 at 04:51:35 AM
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Can you create a new acct with admin priveleges and either run using that, or delete the old account?

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trooper1947   12-13-2007 at 06:54:43 AM
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Right click icon .... compatabilty mode .... click run as admin . probably all ya want to change will have to be done this way.

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decoy26517   12-18-2007 at 04:53:03 AM
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trooper1947 wrote :

Right click icon .... compatabilty mode .... click run as admin . probably all ya want to change will have to be done this way.




tried running Windows explorer "As administrator" By right clicking and clicking on "Run as administrator" And it still doesn't work.

Tried changing the compatibility mode of it and it says "Compatibility modes cannot be set on this program because it is part of this version of windows."

Yes I tried to create another profile and give permissions to that one and that didn't work either.

Any other ideas? I don't like being doomed by my OS. :(

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Scotteq   12-19-2007 at 03:54:32 PM
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Decoy: Change the default priveledges for yoru Admin account.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/ [...] level.html

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