Windows 7 question... can anyone help?

[AntonyF]

So yeah, the new easier to use more stable Windows 7 which is none of these things is driving me mad.

Specifically, every time i try to rename or move a file on a drive it says: "You'll need to provide administrator permission to rename this file."

The problem: I am an administrator!

I tried setting broad permissions for all users/admins/everything under security, but no joy. I tried reassigning ownership of the entire drive to my account personally rather than administrators, but no joy.

It's totally annoying, totally pointless... can anyone help?

Thanks!

 

[Marc]

Was the file there prior to loading Windows 7? I've found with files on drive that existed before I loaded Windows 7 I get that message.

Reset the file security and ownership (and if look at the file security and you see that UIDs are listed then Windows is throwing up the message because it doesn't know how actually owns the file so is being cautious).

Worst case is turn off the UAC but I think it's a permissions problem not UAC.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

With W7RC, I reset the permissions for the entire C:.
A few files fought back during the process, but I haven't had any problems doing normal file moving since.

 

[AntonyF]

Was the file there prior to loading Windows 7? I've found with files on drive that existed before I loaded Windows 7 I get that message.

Yeah.

Reset the file security and ownership (and if look at the file security and you see that UIDs are listed then Windows is throwing up the message because it doesn't know how actually owns the file so is being cautious).

Well I did take ownership, they are all now owned by my account. But it still happens.

Worst case is turn off the UAC but I think it's a permissions problem not UAC.

Well this did cross my mind. I turned it off in Vista, but Windows 7 is meant to work so I left it. You know, according to the adverts we the PEOPLE tell Microsoft what to do! But under UAC, I have it set to "Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer" -- so I should be fine.

I have a full version, not OEM, for the first time ever. So I wonder if this means I can contact MS for support.

 

[Brent]

I just put UAC on "Never Notify" try it, see if it solves your problem.

 

[Iasius]

I tried to stick with UAC for a couple hours, but I gave in and disabled it. The major annoyance was that one program I wanted to run on startup required UAC permission to run. That means I either have to disable UAC or start it manually everytime. Easy choice, after all, it's been 15 years since I've had a virus on my PC and that was on a gaming magazines CD that they didn't check before publishing.