REEEAAAALLLLLY tired of "Access is denied"!!!!

[XS11E]

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?

Yes, of course it can. You need to spend a minute or two RTFM.

 

[BillW50]

In

Move it out of the Program Files folder.

Leave it in the Program Files folder but take ownership of your
application's sub-folder (not the best solution, but it will work.)

Etc.

Why? It is a program after all. Lots of programs store data in the
Program Files folder.

 

[XS11E]

In

Actually it can't.

It can for those who are willing to learn, so for you, it can't.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Not true, but rather than repeating what Seth wrote, I'll refer you to
his excellent post in this thread.

Once you learn how Windows 7 operates and how it's different from
previous Windows versions, you'll probably get along with it quite
well.

Credibility gap alert

 

[BillW50]

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I know what I'm doing. It doesn't get in my way.

Yeah right! It tells me my Asus EeePC batteries are bad and they are
not. Windows 7 stupidly second guess things like a moron. Experienced
users see right through that BS. Non-experienced users are buying new
batteries like dumb asses. All because of Windows 7.

 

[BillW50]

In

It can for those who are willing to learn, so for you, it can't.

I have learned for over 35 years. Windows 7 (I guess Vista too) goes
totally backwards and pretends everybody is a moron. And you are ok with
that?

 

[BillW50]

In

Yes, of course it can. You need to spend a minute or two RTFM.

Yeah right! I read it backwards and forwards.

 

[Nil]

Why? It is a program after all. Lots of programs store data in the
Program Files folder.

Programs that store user data in the Programs File folder conflict with
Vista/Win7's security paradigm. You can fight it and waste your time,
or you can take advantage of the easy and effective workaround. It's up
to you.

 

[Nil]

Yeah right! It tells me my Asus EeePC batteries are bad and they
are not. Windows 7 stupidly second guess things like a moron.
Experienced users see right through that BS. Non-experienced users
are buying new batteries like dumb asses. All because of Windows
7.

I know what I'm doing. Windows 7 doesn't get in my way.

My HP Mini has no such battery issue. Sounds to me like you have a
vendor problem. You should contact ASUS for updated drivers.

 

[BillW50]

In

Programs that store user data in the Programs File folder conflict
with Vista/Win7's security paradigm. You can fight it and waste your
time, or you can take advantage of the easy and effective workaround.
It's up to you.

Yeah I know. I have to rewrite all of the programs that does otherwise.
Or I can stop using Windows 7. Hmm.. what to do?

 

[Seth]

In

Bull crap! It has been this way since Windows 3.1 at least.

Which doesn't make it a proper operating model. It is a great part of the
reason Windows has been the "less secure" OS for so long.

Antivirus checkers update themselves here. Microsoft updates their
applications here.

AV runs as a service which is a different level than a user. Microsoft
updates run as "TrustedInstaller" which is the owner of the \Windows and
\Program Files when security (UAC) is turned on.

Applications doesn't always use the Windows registry and uses

their own INI files instead. And they also use configuration files that
change all of the time here.

INI files are so last decade.

Microsoft assumes every Windows 7 user is a moron. I find this completely
offensive. Yes, I am sure some computer users love to have their hand held
all of the time. All Windows 7 is to me is MS Bob (aka Boob) v2.

Lets face it, the vast majority of computer users (and by extension that
would include Windows users) are (by computer standards) morons.

Microsoft missed the boat here. UAC isn't all bad. But Microsoft is too
stupid to get it. As they only allow it to be on or off. But the smart
thing would be to allow the user to select which applications are okay and
which ones isn't. But Microsoft doesn't work that way.

Again, too dangerous cause it could be infected after you have given it a
green light.

I have no prove or anything. But Microsoft was doing things one way until
before Vista came out. Microsoft has been around since 1975. And I bet
most of them are retired by now. And now we have a new group of people who
doesn't know the past. Now they are doomed to repeat all of the mistakes
of the past. That is how I see it anyway and see it in their new products.

Microsoft was doing things in a way that all logical security considered
"bad". Now that it's adopted the same\similar security methodology of the
other OSs software should be written to conform. How come MAC and Linux
users aren't crying about their version of UAC and it's restrictions?

Again, if you feel you are superior to the security go ahead and turn UAC
off. My main development box where I am doing things "against proper
security" all the time, I have it off. All my other machines I have it on.
The 140,000 machines for which I generate the "Global configuration" for
within my company will also have UAC on.

 

[Seth]

In

Yeah right! It tells me my Asus EeePC batteries are bad and they are not.
Windows 7 stupidly second guess things like a moron. Experienced users see
right through that BS. Non-experienced users are buying new batteries like
dumb asses. All because of Windows 7.

When ASUS fixes their drivers the battery issue will go away.

 

[Char Jackson]

I used it for over a year and my impression didn't change one bit. My
instant impression was the same as my impression a year later. Windows 7
was designed for the inexperienced. And IMHO that is all it is good for.
As it keeps them from doing stupid things. Otherwise it isn't very good
as an OS. Hell Windows 7 won't even run 5% of the Windows applications
that I want to run. While XP runs 100% of them.

You're obviously wrong, but I don't have the energy to enlighten you.
I think the easiest thing to do might be to continue using XP if Win 7
doesn't meet your needs. That would require less effort than actually
learning something new. Good luck.

 

[Seth]

In

Using a computer for over 35 years it wasn't really excellent.

All those years of experience and you couldn't Google... windows 7 documents
and settings access denied...?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+7+documents+and+settings+access+denied

First hit answers it.

 

[BillW50]

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I know what I'm doing. Windows 7 doesn't get in my way.

Yeah right! Windows 7 always gets in the way. I can't even use a stream
recorder to run under Vista or Windows 7. Something about copyright.
Although I am paying for the streams that I want to capture as files. It
isn't like I am trying to pirate anything.

My HP Mini has no such battery issue. Sounds to me like you have a
vendor problem. You should contact ASUS for updated drivers.

No! It works perfectly under XP and Xandros Linux. But not under Windows
7 or Ubuntu Linux. But those two OS assumes the user are morons. And
they think they know what they are doing. But the truth is they both are
morons. The old Microsoft would have never been so stupid.

 

[Nil]

Yeah I know. I have to rewrite all of the programs that does
otherwise. Or I can stop using Windows 7. Hmm.. what to do?

Or you can use the easy and effective workaround.


Why do all conversations with you involve repeating the same thing at
least twice?

 

[Nil]

No! It works perfectly under XP and Xandros Linux. But not under
Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux. But those two OS assumes the user are
morons. And they think they know what they are doing. But the
truth is they both are morons. The old Microsoft would have never
been so stupid.

 

[Nil]

No! It works perfectly under XP and Xandros Linux. But not under
Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux. But those two OS assumes the user are
morons. And they think they know what they are doing. But the
truth is they both are morons. The old Microsoft would have never
been so stupid.

Sounds to me like you have a vendor problem. You should contact ASUS
for updated drivers.

 

[BillW50]

In

Sounds to me like you have a vendor problem. You should contact ASUS
for updated drivers.

Why? It works fine under XP and Xandros. Only Windows 7 and Ubuntu has a
problem. Although both of the latter are smart asses and thinks they
know what they are talking about. But they don't. No need to update
drivers which don't even exists anyway. Although firing some new
programmers sounds like a good idea to me at Microsoft and Ubuntu.

 

[BillW50]

In

Or you can use the easy and effective workaround.

Why do all conversations with you involve repeating the same thing at
least twice?

I need to say it a million times before it sinks in. ;-)