On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:00:02 -0700, TufftyBob
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>Hello Adam,
>
>Ta for the info. I have already tried in my amateurish way most if not all
>of what you suggested, but like you said it doesn't always work, like usually
>in my case it's more likely I don't understand fully what I am looking at and
>selecting/unselecting the wrong thing thereby ending up where I am now. But
>anyway I am sure I will (hopefully) figure it out eventually.
For what it's worth, I haven't figured it all out either. I did an
install in place (installed Vista over XP since I got about a million
files literally) and a few folders still have messed up permissions
that remain grayed out and nothing I've tried cures it.
While long (little over an hour) it is a very interesting presentation
from the two Microsoft employees that came up with UAC.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.a...mID=14&TagID=9
Watch UAC, What, How, Why.