Permissions

I read the post Permissions required 11/19/2007 and the reply by P. Di Stofo
answered my question. It works like a charm

Thank You

"macca" wrote:

> I have just installed Vista home premium and have the following problem. When
> I resize a photo and then go to save it I get the following message.
> C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper
> You do not have permission to save in this location. Contact the
> administrator to obtain permission.
> Would you like to save in the Brian folder instead.
> Once I save the photo in the Brian folder I can then move move the photo
> to the wallpaper folder without any problem!!!!
> I am the only person who uses the computer and I have only the one user
> account which is the administrator account.
> Any help would be appreciated.

I am the sole account on my machine (and am therefore the Administrator) yet
I am constantly receiving messages that i do not have the Administrator's
permission to delete or even save some files. Whenever this happens I try to
change the properties for the file to allow access to all users but it makes
no difference. I wan t to have access to everything and be able to do with it
as I want. What can i do? I did not have this problkem with XP.

"CharlesMiller" <CharlesMiller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7C9C162C-E65E-47E1-AB1B-1DB8C470AC7D@microsoft.com...

>I am the sole account on my machine (and am therefore the Administrator)
>yet
> I am constantly receiving messages that i do not have the Administrator's
> permission to delete or even save some files. Whenever this happens I try
> to
> change the properties for the file to allow access to all users but it
> makes
> no difference. I wan t to have access to everything and be able to do with
> it
> as I want. What can i do? I did not have this problkem with XP.

Charles

Experience has shown that permission changes can change the fundamental
behavior of the Vista operating system, resulting in seemingly unrelated and
unexpected behavior in other components or programs. These changes can
affect security, application compatibility, stability, and reduce
functionality, performance, and capability. You can compare this to pulling
one of the bottom cards out of a house of cards. Further, you may not be
able to undo extensive permission changes that are propagated throughout the
registry and file system by simply reversing the action.

Some things you may see if extensive permission changes are made:
The failure of user accounts to function as expected.
Reduction in security.
Standard users ability to view the contents of other users content, even
administrators folders.
Performance problems such as long logon times or system slowdowns.
Application compatibility problems or application crashes.

These are situations where the only way to get back to the out-of-the-box
settings may be to reformat the hard drive and perform a reinstallation of
the operating system.

If you really want things to behave the way they did in XP, you should
install XP.
--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Thank you, but I can't see why as the sole user I cannot grant permissions to
myself. I am not talking of deleting system files - yesterday it would not
even allow me to save an ordinary Word file.

"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> "CharlesMiller" <CharlesMiller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7C9C162C-E65E-47E1-AB1B-1DB8C470AC7D@microsoft.com...

>
> Charles
>
> Experience has shown that permission changes can change the fundamental
> behavior of the Vista operating system, resulting in seemingly unrelated and
> unexpected behavior in other components or programs. These changes can
> affect security, application compatibility, stability, and reduce
> functionality, performance, and capability. You can compare this to pulling
> one of the bottom cards out of a house of cards. Further, you may not be
> able to undo extensive permission changes that are propagated throughout the
> registry and file system by simply reversing the action.
>
> Some things you may see if extensive permission changes are made:
> The failure of user accounts to function as expected.
> Reduction in security.
> Standard users ability to view the contents of other users content, even
> administrators folders.
> Performance problems such as long logon times or system slowdowns.
> Application compatibility problems or application crashes.
>
> These are situations where the only way to get back to the out-of-the-box
> settings may be to reformat the hard drive and perform a reinstallation of
> the operating system.
>
> If you really want things to behave the way they did in XP, you should
> install XP.
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>

Charles

You are free to make any changes you wish, it is your computer. I just feel
that users need to be warned of the possible consequences before making
wholesale changes to the OS.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"CharlesMiller" <CharlesMiller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:53FE4929-8768-40B3-8251-4422B8A06F3C@microsoft.com...

> Thank you, but I can't see why as the sole user I cannot grant permissions
> to
> myself. I am not talking of deleting system files - yesterday it would not
> even allow me to save an ordinary Word file.
>
> "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
>

Thank you for responding. How can I make those changes? I am the
administrator, yet I am frequently being told that I cannot make changes
without my own permission. I have gone into Properties and set the relevant
files to be accessible by all users, but I still cannot delete or even in
some cases save them in certain places.



"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> Charles
>
> You are free to make any changes you wish, it is your computer. I just feel
> that users need to be warned of the possible consequences before making
> wholesale changes to the OS.

--

>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "CharlesMiller" <CharlesMiller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:53FE4929-8768-40B3-8251-4422B8A06F3C@microsoft.com...

>

CharlesMiller;547316 Wrote:

> Thank you for responding. How can I make those changes? I am the
> administrator, yet I am frequently being told that I cannot make
> changes
> without my own permission. I have gone into Properties and set the
> relevant
> files to be accessible by all users, but I still cannot delete or even
> in
> some cases save them in certain places.
>

Hi Charles,

You will need to take ownership of the file first, then you will be
able to modify it. It should work for you unless it's a symbolic link.
(EX: "My Documents" for "Documents" folder)

You can see how to in this tutorial.

'Take Ownership of file'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html)

Shawn


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I tried to uninstall my Kaspersky Internet Security and received the
following message mid way through the process.
Could not open key Local machine/software/microsoft/security
center/monitoring/KAV
Monitoring cannot be opened. An error is preventing this key from being
opened. access is denied.
I navigated to the key, tried to open it and received the following.
You do not have permission to view the current permission settings but you
can make permission changes.
I clicked OK and the permission for monitoring dialogue box opens.
It is blank.
I try to create permission and receive the following.
Unable to save permission change on monitoring.
Access is denied.
I am running Vista Home Premium SP1 RC1
I have administrator rights

Any help appreciated

Hi Macca.
Try to run Regedit as an administrator.
That is:
Go to start>run and type regedit.
Underneath the typebox, there shall be a remark, that this job will run with
admin-rights.
You can make a link to the Regedit.exe too, Then righ-click the link -
choose "Run as Administrator".

That should give you permissions to edit the registry. Almost everything,
anyway.

If there's still a blank box with no users and permissions for them, you
have to take ownership to create userpermissions. Be carefull with this - the
consequences of doing this wrong or wrong places might be reinstalling
Windows (a destroyed registry). If it is for only one key, it might do no
harm.

When you are uninstalling Kaspersky, are you using Add/remove or the
programs uninstaller.
Advice:
If its possible to use Add/Remove - always do that.

--
BirgerH


"macca" wrote:

> I tried to uninstall my Kaspersky Internet Security and received the
> following message mid way through the process.
> Could not open key Local machine/software/microsoft/security
> center/monitoring/KAV
> Monitoring cannot be opened. An error is preventing this key from being
> opened. access is denied.
> I navigated to the key, tried to open it and received the following.
> You do not have permission to view the current permission settings but you
> can make permission changes.
> I clicked OK and the permission for monitoring dialogue box opens.
> It is blank.
> I try to create permission and receive the following.
> Unable to save permission change on monitoring.
> Access is denied.
> I am running Vista Home Premium SP1 RC1
> I have administrator rights
>
> Any help appreciated

Hi BirgerH,
Thanks for the reply. I did use add/remove.
I created a regedit shortcut, right click, run as administrator, and I still
have the same result.
I am not sure how you take ownership, however I did try to set permission
for the owner in the permissions for monitoring dialogue box but I still get
the same response.
It does not make sense when the message I get is that I cannot view
permissions but can make permission changes!!!

regards

Macca

"BirgerH" wrote:

> Hi Macca.
> Try to run Regedit as an administrator.
> That is:
> Go to start>run and type regedit.
> Underneath the typebox, there shall be a remark, that this job will run with
> admin-rights.
> You can make a link to the Regedit.exe too, Then righ-click the link -
> choose "Run as Administrator".
>
> That should give you permissions to edit the registry. Almost everything,
> anyway.
>
> If there's still a blank box with no users and permissions for them, you
> have to take ownership to create userpermissions. Be carefull with this - the
> consequences of doing this wrong or wrong places might be reinstalling
> Windows (a destroyed registry). If it is for only one key, it might do no
> harm.
>
> When you are uninstalling Kaspersky, are you using Add/remove or the
> programs uninstaller.
> Advice:
> If its possible to use Add/Remove - always do that.
>
> --
> BirgerH
>
>
> "macca" wrote:
>