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Old February 7th 19, 04:47 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Convert laptop to Windows 7

Bill in Co wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 22:58:23 +0000, Java Jive
wrote:

On 06/02/2019 21:48, Bill in Co wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:
I've seen you mention that before, but I spend much of my Windows 7
time in Win Explorer and I never run into those problems.
You never run into "Access Denied" and the smoke and mirrors of junction
points?
Note that you'd be well advised to take a back-up image of the C: drive
before doing this ...

What I do is take ownership of the entire C: drive, this can be done by
rt-clcking it, choosing Security, Advanced, Owner, Edit,
Administrators, Replace on subs, OK.

This on its own may be enought to remove the 'Access denied' message.

Then I give Administrators Full Control over every file. This has to be
done from a command prompt launched as administrator:
icacls C:\*.* /C /Q /L /T /grant Administrators:F

Then I delete the daftest junction points that lead to circular
references, for example there's one inside every user's Application Data
folder heirarchy that points back up to Application Data. The rest I
ignore.

I've never run into any scenario where I'd be tempted to do all of that.


Yeah, but too, you said you spend more time on data drives, and not the OS
drives. That might be part of that, because I'll tell you, it can get to be
a real annoyance having to deal with all the obfuscations and convolutions
added by Windows 7 and its successors (I do presume). None of this
"impediment nonsense" exists in Windows XP, or the preceding OS versions
(unless I missed it).


I bet your eyes lit up, when Java posted that.

I'm expecting experimental results soon...

Paul
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