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REEEAAAALLLLLY tired of "Access is denied"!!!!
I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I
hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! TIA Dan |
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:33:55 -0700, Dan wrote:
I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! I can't duplicate that here. I've been using Windows 7 for about 6-8 months and haven't had an Access Denied message yet. What do I need to do? -- Char Jackson |
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:33:55 -0700, Dan wrote: I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! I can't duplicate that here. I've been using Windows 7 for about 6-8 months and haven't had an Access Denied message yet. What do I need to do? So if you go into WE & click Documents and Settings, users/default user, etc., it lets you see the contents? I even tried accessing them by booting into XP on another HDD, viewing the Win 7 hdd in WE in XP, & STILL couldn't get into them. |
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:52:13 -0700, Dan wrote:
Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:33:55 -0700, Dan wrote: I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! I can't duplicate that here. I've been using Windows 7 for about 6-8 months and haven't had an Access Denied message yet. What do I need to do? So if you go into WE & click Documents and Settings, users/default user, etc., it lets you see the contents? I even tried accessing them by booting into XP on another HDD, viewing the Win 7 hdd in WE in XP, & STILL couldn't get into them. Documents and Settings doesn't seem to exist except as a junction point for backward compatibility, but C:\Users\Default User is accessible. -- Char Jackson |
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:52:13 -0700, Dan wrote: Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:33:55 -0700, Dan wrote: I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! I can't duplicate that here. I've been using Windows 7 for about 6-8 months and haven't had an Access Denied message yet. What do I need to do? So if you go into WE & click Documents and Settings, users/default user, etc., it lets you see the contents? I even tried accessing them by booting into XP on another HDD, viewing the Win 7 hdd in WE in XP, & STILL couldn't get into them. Documents and Settings doesn't seem to exist except as a junction point for backward compatibility, but C:\Users\Default User is accessible. Not sure what you mean by a junction box for backward compatibility, I was looking for my TBird profile, which had always been in docs & settings, but apparently in 7 is stored in "Users", but I am not able to access "default user". I just don't appreciate being blocked from so many areas on my own machine with no option. |
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"Char Jackson" wrote in message ... I can't duplicate that here. I've been using Windows 7 for about 6-8 months and haven't had an Access Denied message yet. What do I need to do? Install Epson Print CD software and then try to save files to the Epson Print CD directory where the software happily kept its data files when it was installed under XP. At least that's where I've encountered problems so far. |
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:20:21 -0700, Dan wrote:
Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:52:13 -0700, Dan wrote: Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:33:55 -0700, Dan wrote: I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! I can't duplicate that here. I've been using Windows 7 for about 6-8 months and haven't had an Access Denied message yet. What do I need to do? So if you go into WE & click Documents and Settings, users/default user, etc., it lets you see the contents? I even tried accessing them by booting into XP on another HDD, viewing the Win 7 hdd in WE in XP, & STILL couldn't get into them. Documents and Settings doesn't seem to exist except as a junction point for backward compatibility, but C:\Users\Default User is accessible. Not sure what you mean by a junction box for backward compatibility, I was looking for my TBird profile, which had always been in docs & settings, but apparently in 7 is stored in "Users", but I am not able to access "default user". I just don't appreciate being blocked from so many areas on my own machine with no option. I hear what you're saying, but I'm just saying I haven't found an area so far that's off limits to me. Regarding T'bird, I don't have that installed, but I do use it's cousin, Firefox, and Firefox stores it's user profiles under my own user account, not under the default user. Are you poking around in the right place? -- Char Jackson |
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On 03/30/2011 07:20 AM, Dan wrote:
Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:52:13 -0700, Dan wrote: Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:33:55 -0700, Dan wrote: I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! I can't duplicate that here. I've been using Windows 7 for about 6-8 months and haven't had an Access Denied message yet. What do I need to do? So if you go into WE & click Documents and Settings, users/default user, etc., it lets you see the contents? I even tried accessing them by booting into XP on another HDD, viewing the Win 7 hdd in WE in XP, & STILL couldn't get into them. Documents and Settings doesn't seem to exist except as a junction point for backward compatibility, but C:\Users\Default User is accessible. Not sure what you mean by a junction box for backward compatibility, I was looking for my TBird profile, which had always been in docs & settings, but apparently in 7 is stored in "Users", but I am not able to access "default user". I just don't appreciate being blocked from so many areas on my own machine with no option. You want Users/ YOUR USER NAME/ AppData/ Roaming/ Thunderbird. You can also double click on the folder on your desktop with your user name to access Users/ YOUR USER NAME. Note that AppData is a hidden file so you need to unhide hidden files first. -- Alias |
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Hi, Dan.
WINDOWS 7 IS NOT WINDOWS XP!!!! (I think 4 is the right number of !!s. g ) Once you get over the WinXP mindset and accept that Win7 is "NOT your father's WinXP", the rest of your Win7 orientation will go much more smoothly. ;^} As Char said, Documents and Settings does not exist in Win7 except as a "Junction Point". Many apps written for WinXP (and Win2K) were hard-coded to look for a folder by that name. Since Win7's structure moved the former contents of that folder to each C:\Users folder tree, those older hard-coded apps needed a "detour" signpost to the new location. So the Win7 developers created the "Documents and Settings" junction point, which does nothing but point to the new location. There is no actual folder there, so it can't have contents. The main mistake the developers made, I suppose, is using the "Access is denied" error message. They should have created a new message directing the user to the new C:\Users\{username}\My Documents folder. And they compounded that mistake by showing TWO apparent "My Documents" folders under C:\Users\{username}! Yes, there are different icons in front of the two foldernames in Windows Explorer, but the difference is so subtle that most of us (including me) don't notice them until someone points them out and explains. (See the attached Snip; I can't show the icons here in plain-text mode.) Note that the highlighted "My Documents" entry shows the usual yellow folder icon. The other "My Documents" is just a small arrow in a box; this is the symbol indicating that this is a Junction Point, not an actual folder. When you click the one with the arrow icon, you get the Access is denied message. Click the other one to see the contents of the "My Documents" folder for YOUR User account. Now you can explore other junction points to see Win7's new organization structure. But be aware that they don't all follow the same pattern; your "Recent" folder has the "junction point" arrow icon, but it's a real folder with contents. And "Application Data" has mutated to a separate "AppData" folder for each user. Win7 is MUCH less frustrating once we've broken out of the WinXP mindset. ;^} RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1 "Dan" wrote in message b.com... I ran Vista beta when it came out, and Win7 is reminding me of why I hated it so much. Why in the bloody hell can I not access the start menu, documents and settings, application data, etc in WE????? Is there a way to get this infuriating nonsense to stop, and get the OS to stop treating me like it's my MOMMY??? ARRRRRGHHH!!! Drives me NUTS! TIA Dan |
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On 3/30/2011 7:55 AM, R. C. White wrote:
WINDOWS 7 IS NOT WINDOWS XP!!!! No it isn't! Win7 is MUCH less frustrating once we've broken out of the WinXP mindset. ;^} I used it on three computers for a year. I promised myself I would give it that long to get used to it. And after the year I still wasn't impressed. I personally found it insulting to have Windows 7 to hold my hand all of the time. As all I wanted it to do is to butt out and to shut up! But Windows 7 can't do that, now can it? Although I fully understand why 80% of computer users like it and 20% doesn't. As I fall into the 20% camp. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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On 30 Mar 2011, BillW50 wrote in
alt.windows7.general: As all I wanted it to do is to butt out and to shut up! But Windows 7 can't do that, now can it? Yes, it can. |
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On 3/30/2011 4:39 PM, Nil wrote:
On 30 Mar 2011, wrote in alt.windows7.general: As all I wanted it to do is to butt out and to shut up! But Windows 7 can't do that, now can it? Yes, it can. Really? I just moved Thunderbird Portable to the Program Files folder and it marked it all as read only. Changed it and Windows 7 changed it back to read only again. So how do you tell Windows 7 to knock it off and stay out of the way? -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:04:31 -0500, BillW50 wrote:
Win7 is MUCH less frustrating once we've broken out of the WinXP mindset. ;^} I used it on three computers for a year. I promised myself I would give it that long to get used to it. And after the year I still wasn't impressed. I personally found it insulting to have Windows 7 to hold my hand all of the time. As all I wanted it to do is to butt out and to shut up! But Windows 7 can't do that, now can it? Actually, it can. -- Char Jackson |
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"BillW50" wrote in message ... On 3/30/2011 4:39 PM, Nil wrote: On 30 Mar 2011, wrote in alt.windows7.general: As all I wanted it to do is to butt out and to shut up! But Windows 7 can't do that, now can it? Yes, it can. Really? I just moved Thunderbird Portable to the Program Files folder and it marked it all as read only. Changed it and Windows 7 changed it back to read only again. So how do you tell Windows 7 to knock it off and stay out of the way? By not putting a portable program in \Program Files is one way to get Windows to knock it off. The app isn't designed to run that way. \Program Files is correctly considered a "protected" area. The portable version of any app is designed to run from portable media or the user space. It is designed to update files and save settings into it's folder. That shouldn't be happening under \Program Files. If you insist on running that way, then turn off the Windows security by turning off UAC. Now Windows won't care what you do as you have now told it to leave you alone. You have also told it to ignore legitimate concerns as well. |
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Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:04:31 -0500, BillW50 wrote: Win7 is MUCH less frustrating once we've broken out of the WinXP mindset. ;^} I used it on three computers for a year. I promised myself I would give it that long to get used to it. And after the year I still wasn't impressed. I personally found it insulting to have Windows 7 to hold my hand all of the time. As all I wanted it to do is to butt out and to shut up! But Windows 7 can't do that, now can it? Actually, it can. Actually it can't. It is designed to help those that doesn't know what they are doing. It doesn't do anything for those who does knows what they are doing and does nothing for them but gets in their way. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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