Unfortunately, even as the only user on the system, and with a administrator-level id, I am not allowed to do certain things. I have had files and folders that I am not allowed to delete - even though I created them and have every permission known to modern man! Microsoft is targetting business users/multiple use machines so much that they have forgotten the concept of the personal PC. I live alone and nobody else ever has their grubby hands on my keyboard. I don't need their nanny service to protect me! If I *do* screw something up, then that is my problem - they certainly won't help anyway...
I am running win 7 Ultimate, 64-bit. I would have loved to stay on XP, but too many of my programs would no longer run, and required an update. There is now the potential problem of no more support or upgrades for XP, but that hardly matters. My machine will not install most microsoft updates anyway without throwing a fit. Tech support is useless, always falling back on the "oh, it must be the other fellow's software causing the problem..." reply. Sorry, this rant is not really meant for this group, I just couldn't help myself! Phil. At 04:21 PM 4/30/2014, you wrote: >Phil: > >Christopher's explanation looks pretty good, but I'd just add a couple >points: if you're still running Windows XP, as I recall, you don't need >to worry about permissions, because users are set to have administrator >privileges by default. You can create users (say for children or >adolescents) which do not have administrator privileges but this must be >done explicitly. In Windows 7 (sorry, skipped Vista, so don't know >whether this applies there or not) I believe only the first user created >on the system has administrator privileges, and all subsequent users >created do not; one must explicitly assign them administrator >privileges. If you are the only one using your computer, you can give >all accounts on it administrator privileges, and not have to deal with >the issues that confronted Lawrence. > >And since I'm pushing the limits of what I know here (though not >necessarily what I think I know), I'll refer any with other questions >about permissions and administrator privileges to Windows help. > >ns > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >[email protected] Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read. Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
