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Vista

Jul 27, 2007 7:20PM PDT

Hi all, not very often post to the forum but! is it me, anyhow got vista ulitmate, if your going to get it get the best is my motto anyhow installed it on my new computer, fantastic, installed like a dream found all the hardware, well that must be a first and a very welcome point, I must have be lucky, so were off to a good start, anyhow then it started I created a folder no problem here, but then I wanted to delete a folder (remember I'm the owner and have complete rights) no it would not let me, told me I have to be the administrator, ok then i thought log on as admin well yes in certain places you can, but not to delete a folder so pretty annoyed I formated (+wiped it) the hard and reinstalled vista this time I thought right on first setup I'll use administrator as log in name no it won't let you that reserved for the administrator so I went though the books and found this ucl or something that you can turn off (not recommended) thought ah I got you, noway so I've just given up, had vista on for about a month but its just got to many quirks, unloaded it and gone back to winXP sp2 and now I'm happy as larry, so how come microsoft has spent all this time and money on a program that's useless, I want a computer that does what I want it to do not what microsoft want it to do. regards Don

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What folder were you trying to delete?
Jul 28, 2007 3:29AM PDT

UAC (User Account Control) can be more of an annoyance than a beneficial security feature, but after disabling it and using an administrative account you should be able to delete most folders, provided the contents are not in use. If it refuses you can use MoveOnBoot or Unlocker to forcibly remove the file, just like is occasionally necessary under Windows XP. I wonder, what folder were you trying to delete?

John

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folders
Jul 28, 2007 6:31PM PDT

Hi John, it was a folder I created to hold some data for my new website which I am currently constructing so it really should not have been a problem and yes I did empty the folder before I tried to delete it, as I said before though I still believe the operating system is flawed, maybe I should have waited until episode two came out, but then microsoft should not have released it with so many flaws in the first place Regards Don


System Hp 7480 intel duel core 3.2ghz 4gb ram two 250 gb (raid) sata hard drives nvidia 7600GT 512mb graphics card + 500gb network hard drive (runs my cnc milling machine from the office) this runs along side a HP proliant ML110 G4 server xeon duel core 1.8ghz (64bit) 2gb ram two 160gb sata (raid) + two 500gb sata hard drives, had to upgarde the onboard graphics to a ATI Radeon 9250 because they reach the screen resolution I wanted and added a creative SB Audigy sound card because it also houses my audio/vidio collection coupled to my TV/hifi system