I bought a laptop for a friend that has Vista on it. I’m used to XP and am trying to migrate her XP setup to the new Vista computer. I went through the install and it created an administrator account for her. But I went into her “Applications Data” folder and I’m getting “Access is Denied”.
I guess being an Administrator doesn’t even get you into your own folders.
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Simply because programmers, IT admins and your local Computer repair shop could keep there jobs… joking, however it could factor in.
pibcak
Of course you don’t own the folders, Microsoft does. Didn’t you read the EULA?
AND IF’ ms would stick to STANDARDIZED programming precautions, most of this could be averted.
NEVER let anything WRITE to the OS or its DIR. USE them from another DIR OR from the programs OWN DIR.
NOT seeing Win 7, I cant say what has been done. Hopefully for the better.
Why don’t they make car engines easy for the layman to work on?
Why cant I do my own brain surgery?
Why am I not a Fields medal winner?
Because some issues are complicated and better left to professionals.
Ooooh, looks like they’re still copying from OSX.
OMG I gave up on XP when Vista came out. I had no issues transferring
anything. Are you sure this was not a issue where you did not transfer your existing user account correctly and if so your new user account on the Vista machine would not recognize those files. Just some friendly advise. Why not seek out help on support forums rather then complaining about Vista? I saw the same thing when XP came out and Windows 98 users complained. I guess some would rather complain then solve. One thing I can say about transferring with Vista. I have upgraded to new laptops twice since with Vista on both machines and it works great! So maybe your blaming the wrong OS. Maybe its XP that is the problem. Don’t be so quick to judge. Sounds like you should have stayed with XP if you thought Vista was so bad?
It is hard to say, with any certainty, what the problem might be in this case. The account to set up Vista is by default Administrator, giving total super user privileges. I suspect a recovery partition is configured on the hard drive, with a separate account. I could lead you somewhere unpleasant, so best that you see a service provider and ask for a new production image to be placed onto the hard disk.
Migrations and upgrades of OS’s is always a bad idea. You are far better off installing the OS clean.
Then configure the OS the way you want.
Then install the apps you want. You should check to see what version of the app runs on your new OS and get that version.
Then configure the apps the way you want.
Then make sure all the updates, patches, and fixes for the OS and all apps are installed.
Then transfer the user’s data from the old computer. This is often not that hard since most of the data is media and Office documents.
The hardest thing to move is email. You need to look up the instructions for your email client. I use Gmail, a web based email client, so I don’t have to worry about it.
Then have the new apps perform any data upgrades that they might need, if they do at all.
I’ve never had a BSOD with Vista. Nor have I ever had anything close to the problems you are describing.
Is it only now that you begin to witness the turdness that is Vista?
You have to change ownership of all those folders to Administrator. That, will bring another can of worms.
#9 Well, if it means to protect us from your posts, then it’s a good thing. Otherwise, I don’t see any good thing in that “protection” scheme. Wake up already!
And turning off UAC does not makes things better until you change folder ownership.
#13 Your keyboard, that is. The real problem with vista is the moronic view the current MS programmers & managers have about what an OS should be. Too worried in copying macos than doing things right.
#16 Dumbest post I’ve seen. Vista is a turd, why call it anything else?
#23 Good one!
#26 You nailed it.
How can you say you’re ‘used to XP’ but are incapable of using Vista?
Except for a couple of tweaks in the start menu and renaming stuff in the control panel its UI is more or less identical.
This seems like a case of someone just bitching for the sake of bitching, and jumping on the Vista Sucks bandwagon instead of just using it for a week and realizing their preconceived notions were fucking stupid.
These “Vista sucks” articles, well, suck.
The blame lies with your own incompetence, not Vista.
#32 Funny, I blame incompetence too, MS’
I ordered a new Dell with Vista Ultimate on it and never had a problem with it. Granted it was a new box with a load of ram and high speed drives. The only think I didn’t like was Vista seemed to thrash the hard drives for some reason. I wouldn’t be doing anything and the drives were just ripping along. Other than that I thought Vista was fine.
I just upgraded to Win 7 and that seems to be going well and is more Vista R2 than a radically new OS.
This and a number of other “folders” are what in unix would be called a symbolic link. Microsoft has moved things around for obscure purposes and the older names are retained for compatibility purposes but all they do is link to a different folder where the data really resides. You can’t delete the link since that would compromise system compatibility. You can’t open the folder because it isn’t a folder and has no contents.
In most cases I’ve found, there is another folder somewhere with a very similar name (remember the bit about obscure purposes?) and that is where the link points.
This is only a problem if you know what you are doing. For Aunt Millie, who leaves her data in a random sprawl across her hard drive, it works just fine.
#35 It’s also a problem if you’re installing old programs. Even new ones, since it seems MS has done an impressively poor job at describing installation procedures to 3rd parties. Opera 10 upgrade being the newest in these blunders.
I loath the way Vista keeps me out of my own files.
One reason I have no interest in 7 is that I think it will just get worse.
The folder renaming was actually an improvement. You’ll notice they took out all the spaces. This is more concise and more script friendly.
Actually there is much documentation about “proper” windows programming. A lot of it is ignored.
So where is the story?
Jam any windows Vista on my tablet PC and im more than happy with it. I used to hate Vista but after using if for about a year now, I pretty much used to it now. For me XP sucks, Lame , 8 years old OS.