Luis Ortega said:
Thanks. It certainly is confusing.
There are multiple instance of folders all over windows explorer.
I have been trying to allow access and have succeeded on some but I am
just flying blind and have no idea if I am screwing everything up.
Some folders continue to be unaccessible and some are now accessible, but
I don't know in what order to be doing this or what the parent stuff is
all about.
I suspect that any moment now I will render the whole computer useless and
will be forced to reformat and reinstall the OS from scratch.
That may be just as well, since I need to learn how to use this thing and
I don't have a clue. Usually installing an OS is the first step in
learning how it works.
I am very familiar with xp and with building computers but this vista is
just very weird.
I wish that I could install xp on it but apparently there aren't any xp
drivers for this laptop's devices. It's a new Dell Studio 1535. The
hardware itself is nice but the OS is crap.
http://www.nirmaltv.com/2008/07/11/how-to-take-ownership-of-files-and-folders-in-vista/
Vista is not XP, and you need to start learning how to use Vista. However,
taking ownership of a <c>, folders and files in folders is no different than
on XP. But, you can't take ownership of everything not on Vista like you
could on XP.
Some folders like Program Files, C:\Windows and registry keys etc etc have
more protection applied to them then any previous version of the NT based
O/S. Vista is not an open by default O/S like XP.
Your out of the box user/admin account or any subsequent user/admin accounts
are not user/admin accounts that have full admin access to everything,
because those user/admin accounts don't inherit full admin rights from the
built-in Administrator account like it does on XP, even with UAC disabled.
This is the only user account on Vista that has full admin rights at all
times that your Standard user(user/admin) account do not have the same
rights.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...idden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/
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http://www.computerperformance.co.u...a_Administrator_-_Super_User_(Hidden_Account)>
You should read about the *benefits* of using that built-in Administrator
account.
And here is where that Administrator account might come into play, as an
example.
http://chrisbensen.blogspot.com/2007/02/com-registration-under-microsoft.html
You should take the time to understand what is under the hood of Vista and
how to use Vista, because it far out classes any previous version of the NT
based O/S.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691.aspx
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Admin-Approval-Mode-in-Windows-Vista-45312.shtml
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc138019.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160882.aspx
http://itsvista.com/2007/03/base-filtering-engine/
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/network/wfp.mspx
The key to Vista is to not install none Vista compliant software on Vista,
like some solutions that are dedicated to run on the XP platform, because
that is nothing but trouble on Vista as that can lead to other solutions and
Vista itself to start aborting.
http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/
There are more things under the hood of Vista that makes it different. You
say you know XP. Then why can't you do the same with Vista.?
However, you can disable things like UAC, run with the built-in
Administrator account and shut down services, that will return you back to
running on a malware bait O/S, just XP, with full admin rights as you run
on the Internet wide open to attack, just like you did before.
