Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 20:12:33 -0700, "Bill in Co"
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink 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).

The split is probably 70/30 or 60/40, so if working on the OS drive was
full of smoke and mirrors, I would have noticed back in, what, 2007?
When 7 was a new OS for me? So no, I wouldn't say there's any problem
working on the OS drive. I never noticed anything annoying and I'm not
sure why you're running into problems.

Well, I think Java Jive illustrated the essence of some of those annoyances,
best. :-)