W1O irritant. "You'll need to provide administra..."

[nuyorican]

I'm setting up a new Windows computer. Moving a lot of files around. Seemingly in between every mouse click I'm getting this irritating pop-up saying 'access denied, you'll have to provide administrator permissions... etc etc, or something like that. Thinking about it from the OS's viewpoint, The computer could be being used by anyone, so I get it, I understand why it's doing it. But is there a way or setting to turn all this guff off? It's my computer, for my sole use. I am the administrator, I don't need any other user accounts etc.

Cheers

[EmailAddress]

Have you tried assigning permissions to the folder.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/change-files-and-fo...

[nuyorican]

Thanks.

I did look at that. Decided to do it on the root folder 'C Drive' so as to include all other sub-folders, but got some ominous warning pop-up about changing the permissions on the root/startup drive. There's also further confusion in that there are multiple entities to change permissions for: Authenticated Users, System, Administrators, Users...

Who are all these groups that need access to my machine? And which one is me, the guy who owns and uses the bloody thing?

[Ham_and_Jam]

nuyorican said:

I'm setting up a new Windows computer. Moving a lot of files around. Seemingly in between every mouse click I'm getting this irritating pop-up saying 'access denied, you'll have to provide administrator permissions... etc etc, or something like that. Thinking about it from the OS's viewpoint, The computer could be being used by anyone, so I get it, I understand why it's doing it. But is there a way or setting to turn all this guff off? It's my computer, for my sole use. I am the administrator, I don't need any other user accounts etc.

Cheers

I think the point is that if you are connected to the internet, you potentially may not be the only person using your computer.

Safest way is to set up everything as the administrator, then create another log in user account with restricted access to use for your everyday tasks.

[xeny]

nuyorican said:

I'm setting up a new Windows computer. Moving a lot of files around. Seemingly in between every mouse click I'm getting this irritating pop-up saying 'access denied, you'll have to provide administrator permissions... etc etc, or something like that. Thinking about it from the OS's viewpoint, The computer could be being used by anyone, so I get it, I understand why it's doing it. But is there a way or setting to turn all this guff off? It's my computer, for my sole use. I am the administrator, I don't need any other user accounts etc.

Cheers

What are you moving and where that you're getting constant UAC prompts?

[nuyorican]

xeny said:

What are you moving and where that you're getting constant UAC prompts?

VST plugins. (music production PC)

From wherever they were previously, either downloads or my backup drive to C/Prog files/Common files /VST2 etc

[Baldchap]

Create a user, set permissions up at the lowest practical level and go from there.

Ideally, you wouldn't be using a PC as administrator 24/7.

[xeny]

nuyorican said:

VST plugins. (music production PC)

From wherever they were previously, either downloads or my backup drive to C/Prog files/Common files /VST2 etc

Possible workaround might be to gather them up somewhere you've got write access by default and drop them all in in one go? Alternatively, give yourself write permissions on the folder. Neither is ideal I acknowledge.