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How do I get access to my files with no admin on this Vista PC? How do we
do away with these unwanted saftey accounts so we can both access everything
on our new PC?
 
GingerKatt said:
How do I get access to my files with no admin on this Vista PC? How do
we do away with these unwanted saftey accounts so we can both access
everything on our new PC?
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Please explain EXACTLY what you are trying to do. Your document files, by
default should be in the folder C:/Users/{Your User Name}/Documents to which
you do NOT need Admin rights to access.

What "files" are you trying to access that need admin rights to do so?
 
If you wish to share file between different Vista users, then put the files
in the Public folders.
 
GingerKatt said:
How do I get access to my files with no admin on this Vista PC? How do
we do away with these unwanted saftey accounts so we can both access
everything on our new PC?
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UAC is horribly annoying and just slightly better than useless.

Open up Control Panel, and type in "UAC" into the search box. You'll see a
link for "Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off".

Follow that link and turn UAC off. Your system will be much more usable and
friendly, although it will be arguably less secure.
 
I read your post I have recently had some work done on my computer.
Today I created a doc in Word (XP 03) I created anew folder and saved the
doc in the new folder. when I went to open the folder later I was denied
access.
"suer doe not have access privleges"
Where or how do I tell the program that I have privledges????
 
flinthead said:
I read your post I have recently had some work done on my computer.
Today I created a doc in Word (XP 03) I created anew folder and saved the
doc in the new folder. when I went to open the folder later I was denied
access.
"suer doe not have access privleges"
Where or how do I tell the program that I have privledges????
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If you are logged into the computer as user/admin flinthead, then go to
the folder and add a new user account to the folder for flinthead and
set user/flinthead to match the privileges of Administrator
(machine-name\administrators).

So on the folder as a user because you are a *user* too, you'll have
flinthead (machine-name\flinthead) as a user that can access the folder.

You can use Explore, go to the folder, right-click it, select
Properties, go to the Security tab, Edit button, Add button and add the
flinthead user account to the folder, giving it Full rights.

If you don't see the Security tab, then you can use Google to find out
how to disable Simple File Sharing on Vista to expose the tab.
 
UAC is horribly annoying and just slightly better than useless.
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Nonsense. It's _completely_ useless :-)

You need to take ownership of the C: drive to completely eliminate the
annoying features.
 
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