Windows Windows 7 Permissions :(

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  1. Booga

    Booga Cuppa tea anyone?

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    I have been having some problems with permissions on Win 7.
    When a CD automatically ripped to My Music on C:, I went to move it to the media portion of my drive D: but it said I had no permission to do so, even though there is only one account and I am the administrator. I manged to fix the permissions on the folder to eventually allow me to move it, after many warnings.

    Last night I again had a problem where I had created a folder in the Programs(x86) folder some that I could unpack a RAR game file into it.
    The unpacking failed with both 7-Zip and WinRAR so I checked the permissions on the folder and despite being the creator and administrator it was set as read only.
    I found that no matter what I did every time I tried to change the permissions on that folder it would not accept my changes even though I said do it as administrator.
    I then unpacked the file to another temp location and copied and pasted the files to the new folder. This seemed to work OK.
    However when I ran the game launcher it ran up until I had to choose a writable forlder to put the download files into. It would not let me select the folder I had created.

    Should I just go to the top level folder (Programs Files(x86) and set top down permissions for full access to all folders and sub folders?

    Any help/advice would be much appreciated.
     
  2. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    right click and 'run as admin' when opening winrar.. give it access to write into the program files (x86) folder
     
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  3. Booga

    Booga Cuppa tea anyone?

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    Thank you will try that. :thumb:

    LOL just saw you sig that's from Bloodsport, gotta love JCVD. :D
     

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