C drive access problem

[BillW50]

You can do what I did and Google it. There were lots of links so I
reviewed a few to see if they used a common approach, which they did,
so click-click and it was done.

I'd like to think I'm normally more helpful than this, but you have to
admit you've been showing some attitude lately so it's hard.

Thanks and no problem. I wasn't aware as this could be disabled. My
attitude is only because I am a bit miffed how many totally accept an
idiot proof OS as being ok. Especially among experienced users.

Found out that disabling libraries requires a registry hack. No wonder
that wasn't in the manual. ;-)

 

[BillW50]

That's since MS found out out just how stupid the average PC user is.
And, believe you me, there are some really stupid ones. That's why SPAM
pays; that's why phishing emails pay; that's why firewalls,
spy-blasters, virus-checkers et al. sell in such large numbers.
There are some unbelievably stupid PC users.

It's difficult to get into their heads if you're like the average
contributor here. We have some insight into how these bags of tricks
work. Our experience shows us between the lines; we look at the bits and
bytes.

But the vast majority of the millions of PC users don't.
Ring one up, tell him/her that you've detected some problem with his
computer, ask him to look in the Events error log and count how many
errors are logged therein, and you'll ring him back tomorrow evening for
his answer, and he'll be there waiting.
Yes, the average PC user is stupid in comparison. It might just as well
be magic coming from Hogwarts school for all they know!

And that is why MS does what it does; to protect the weakest mentalities
amongst us.

Very nice, Ed. But am I the only one that remembers...

“Make something idiot proof and only an idiot will want to use it”

 

[Yousuf Khan]

yes, its't the root - the top level of the C: drive - that I'm trying to
edit files in.

That's the default behaviour. You'll find that even the original "User
1" user won't be able to save anything to there either.


Yousuf Khan

 

[Hermaans]

I have a legacy program that needs to read an ini file from the C drive. I start notepad as administrator (rmb) then I save the file I created on the C drive no probelm.

the software I use also writes a status file to the C drive. I start it also as administrator and it works fine UAC on or off.

 

[Anthony Miller]

It's just wrong on every level to not have default access to the C drive top level.
A whole load of software uses the C drive top level for making interim files.
I've always as a programmer used the C drive top level for making interim files.
It makes them easy to find.

Also if I make use of a folder beneath the C drive top level how do I know at some point in the future Microsoft wont restrict that functionality and if I change to using an existing infrastructure sub-folder how do I know that it will be present next time they change their operating system model.

Strip away the mask of "security" and what this is about really is Microsoft stopping the user from using the system rather than adressing underlying security issues.
Home users aren't Microsoft's biggest customers - that's business and industry.
And what we need is not software operating systems that are crippled by castrating safety features that prevent anyone doing anything. What's the point in having more processing power when every time you press a button it says "let's go slowly here because it might be dangerous".

I cannot adequately type enough anger into this window to express my seething anger and rage at this nadir in operating sytem implementation.
This putrid excrament of a default was not my idea and I'd like someone to own up please.

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If they really want to protect users to this extent they should ship two version
An
Industry Version
and a
Div's Version

Yes, I think it could sell "Microsoft Div"

If I had a pound for every man hour this wasted me I'd still be a good £10 an hour down.