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Convert laptop to Windows 7
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 22:24:33 -0700, "Bill in Co"
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote: Paul wrote: 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 You may be waiting awhile, since I'm having a hard time leaving my XP computer. :-) At the rate things are going over here, I expect that day will only come when XP becomes useless to me, due to some browser limitations on various websites. That, plus the fact that I don't have a Windows 7 desktop computer, but only a Windows XP desktop computer, which I naturally prefer using over the laptop. I won't comment on your choice of Windows versions, just on that last phrase, "which I naturally prefer using over the laptop." You say "naturally," and I agree with you. But if we are not in the minority yet, we are well on our way to getting there. More and more people these days prefer laptops to desktops. |
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