navigate fairly well within my computer. But now I feel like a beginne
whenever I get stopped by the dreaded (at least to me) "You nee
permission to perform this task."
I have an external drive (holds about 100GB) that I have been using t
back up files and stuff. However, I want to delete many folders from th
EHD and better streamline my backups, and when I try to do so, I get th
dreaded… I mean, like I have Adobe on the EHD, why can’t I simpl
delete it. As far as I can tell I am the administrator, so shouldn’t
be able to delete stuff from the EHD without all this hassle?
For example, here’s what I tried to no avail: I selected Adobe on m
EHD, right clicked it and selected Properties>Security. There I se
that, among other things, I have "Full Control"…So why can’t I no
delete this folder. Reading through the inherited stuff (some stuff
want to delete came from XP and I have Vista HP)and permissions is th
ultimate confusion exercise. I do want to try to maintain security o
the computer (although I and my wife are its only users), so I’
reluctant to undo UAC-which I think will get rid of all these permissio
walls??? Can anyone please help me before I have the next drink? Thanks
BTW I naively thought that if I turned UAC off, then permissions woul
go away…but Noooo
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flycaster
