Ridiculous!

Alright I'm getting pretty fed up with the troubles. I am new to vista
I had been dealing with a 98 and an xp for 8 years and had to get
vista a few days ago and I've never dealt with a vista before. I wasn'
around for the setup and my brother did that. It's under his name.
changed the registered owner name to my name and thought that woul
solve my troubles but it didn't. I've tried meddling with C:\ Propertie
under Users and Groups but I have had no help. It also appears to sa
Shaun-PC and that's my brother's name. I thought changing the registere
owner would've changed that too. No avail. I am having "Access Denied
problems even to my own External Hardrive from my xp. I can open th
external hardrive folder, open files in it, etc but just today when
tried to modify and re-save an existing file it said that access i
denied. I also cannot delete from the ext.hardrive either.

Why does this crap have to be so complicated and can anyone help m
please? Lol

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ILoveSeb

Hi ILoveSeb,

The only way to change the username from "C:\Users\(username)" is to
create a new Administrator account and delete the old one, or reinstall
Vista.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93...nt-create.html


That may help with your permission problems with the external drive. If
not, take ownership of the external drive to see if that allow access.
See Method Two here:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html

Shawn


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Thank you for replying. I did the first set of instructions but I stayed
on this account for the second set. Under command prompt when I typed
/takeown /f J:\ (J: is the external hardrive) and it said SUCCESS: The
file <or folder>: "J:\" now owned by user "Shaun-PC\Shaun".

But why is that? My name's Kelly. I changed the administrator name of
the original account to Kelly and the registered user as well but it
still says my brother's name. So there's no way I can take FULL charge
of this main account that my brother created or do I have to go to the
new one I had just created from the tutorial and do this command prompt
thing over?


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ILoveSeb

ILoveSeb,

The Administrator account you are using named *Kelly* is the same as
the one your brother created with his name. You can change the name and
registered user name from your brother's name to *Kelly*, but it will
still not change it's name at the *C:\Users\Shaun* location. It will
only change the folder name you see in the Start menu and in User
Accounts in the Control Panel. You should have full control of this
account other than giving permission for the UAC (User Account Control)
prompt. If you want to change your brother's name from that location,
you must create a new Administrator account and delete the old one, or
reinstall Vista. You just had to take control of the external drive
since it was from XP and not Vista.

To truly have full control of Vista, you will need to enable the
built-in Administrator account. However, everything installed on the
computer will have full access to. UAC will no longer be protecting you
in this account.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...r-account.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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Much oblige, I really appreciate it!


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Your welcome Kelly.


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I have a folder inside of my external hardrive where I save Text File
that I create from WordPad. Right now I have been attempting to save
file to it but it says

Access to J:\Text Documents\My Music List.rtf was denied

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ILoveSeb

ILoveSeb,

Have you already taken ownership of it?

Double check to make sure that it didn't get set to *Read-only
somehow, and that it is not open in another location or program

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Yes it was Read-Only but I unchecked that option, tried again, no avail.

I'm also having the permission issue when trying to delete a
folder/file from the external hardrive.


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ILoveSeb

Kelly,

I'm afraid that I do not know what else to suggest other then backin
up the contents of the drive and see if formating it with Vista, the
adding the files back will let you have full access to it since it wa
originally formated from XP.

Shaw

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