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.
#40 I thought you hated America.
In Vista, you will either want ‘C:\Users\[Account]\AppData’ for the user-level Application Data folder (for which you shouldn’t need to be an administrator) or ‘C:\ProgramData’ for the computer-level Application Data folder.
I’ve got problems with flash on my vista box and after checking the help forums and trying all the fixes, i still get browser crashes everyday sometimes taking the os with it and that’s in both ff and chrome.
You know what Marc Perkel, please don’t post anything if you have nothing interesting/significant/useful to say.
It was about your pet squirrel and now the vista bashing. It sounds more like a mundane personal journal entry and doesn’t fit in with DU overall worldview.
I’m sorry if I was harsh, but I had to say it!
@pedro: Are you paid to write dumb comments that stir chaos and arguments?
I think Windows 7 isn’t much different although I’ve never ran into the administrator issue myself. But people have been having problems running files and having to resort to “running as admin” creating another admin account, etc while they’re administrator already. Kinda sad really.
I gave Vista Ultimate 5 chances, there’s no way in hell I’ll go back to that screwed up OS…even with the fixes. Win7 for me
Windows 7 is Microsoft’s revenge! You can’t “upgrade” from XP to 7; you have to wipe XP off your system and install 7.
Or you can go to Ubuntu 9.04 with all your files. It’s time for a Change!
#44 Well, your post was quite useless too. I hope you follow your won advice & don’t post anymore.
#45 No. Just someone that can see thru most hypes. Vista sucks, deal with it. Don’t even get me started on how lame it handles network interfaces after waking up from sleep or hibernation. That will really set me off.
#47 You would want to “upgrade” from a 8 year old OS instead of doing a clean install? I wouldn’t upgrade to Win7 from Vista; I will do a clean install.
You’re still with Microsoft? In this day and age. Do you hunt rabbits with stone tipped arrows, too?
#48 @pedro: When you say that “your post was quite useless too”, you kinda agree that your yourself post was useless. I didn’t exactly mention that but kudos on your honesty.
#48 @pedro: A useless blog post and useless comment are entirely different things. Moreover, my comment is not any less useless than you non-stop whining.
And about the Vista bashing, a bad workman blames his tools. I have been working with vista trouble-free for 2 years.
… and you’re surprised at this?