Bill Bradshaw said:
Running Windows 7 Pro. I would like to change some permissions on
directories but Windows 7 is not allowing it. I am logged in as the
administrator. How can an administrator be denied anything?
Win7 programmers have their own impression of being Administrator. Try the
following. Open the users, find the ADMINISTRATOR (I realize that your
current account is added to the administrative group, but it really means
nothing for MS programmers, trust me
), Enable this ADMINISTRATOR user
record, it's disabled by default by the way, then assign a password. Win7
will bark that the user data will be lost because you're changing its
password to prevent... bla-bla-bla. Ignore it, it was disabled before you
just enabled it, and assign a new password to this built-in ADMINISTRATOR.
Then you will want to switch the user to login as the built-in
ADMINISTRATOR. You don't need to close your login, just switch the user.
After you logged in as ADMINISTRATOR, not as administrator
as you usually
do, you will be able to install drivers, to correct the windows update
settings, override the directories ownership, assign the permissions to the
programs, etc., etc., much more tasty things that the administrator can do.
Funny? Call MS to ask about the approach that they implemented in Win7. From
now on ADMINISTRATOR and administrator are two different records and
permissions as well. Cngrts!
Just D.
