new vista question

You guys seem very knowledgeable, I have another question
for you. How do I set Vista to allow administration rights
to the current user so I can change sharing and move files etc
without all the "denied access" messages?

"JG" <NoMail@NoSpam> wrote in message news:...
> You guys seem very knowledgeable, I have another question
> for you. How do I set Vista to allow administration rights
> to the current user so I can change sharing and move files etc
> without all the "denied access" messages?
>
>


TweakUAC..

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"JG" <NoMail@NoSpam> wrote in message news:...
> You guys seem very knowledgeable, I have another question
> for you. How do I set Vista to allow administration rights
> to the current user so I can change sharing and move files etc
> without all the "denied access" messages?
>
>



Get rid of the aggravation of User Accounts. Go to: Start/Settings/control
panel/User Accounts... go to bottom right, click on "Turn user account
control on or off" and turn user accounts OFF.

JG wrote:
> You guys seem very knowledgeable, I have another question
> for you. How do I set Vista to allow administration rights
> to the current user so I can change sharing and move files etc
> without all the "denied access" messages?
>
>

<http://www.nirmaltv.com/2008/07/11/how-to-take-ownership-of-files-and-folders-in-vista/>

Also, you should be user/admin on the folder. But Vista will view you as
being a user, and it will also view you as being a part of the
Administrator group.

If your *user* account the one you use to login into the computer with,
if it's *JG* as an example, is not on the folder as an account or it's
there but it doesn't match the Administrator group account rights that
has full rights, then it's going to be *access denied.

So either take ownership and give the ownership back to the user or put
your user account on the folder with full rights on the folder.

You can also use the built-in Administrator account that has full rights
beyond the out of the box the user/admin account that Vista gives you,
which is the same on on XP.

<http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_administrator_activate.htm#Summary_of_Vista_ Administrator_-_Super_User_(Hidden_Account)>

You should read this, because it can come into play on protected folders
and files, and UAC has no control of it.

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa382503.aspx>