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Anonymous
2012-09-26T16:08:11+00:00

Has anyone found a solution to the issues with Windows 7 and the save and access errors? "You don't have permission to save in this location" "Access Denied" "Need Administrator..."

I am the only user of my computer and installed Windows 7 myself on a new hard drive.

I have taken ownership of all drives.

I have given every user account Full Control over every folder.

I have set the UAC to the lowest level so that there is no User Access Control.

I know that I shouldn't do any of these things since it's bad practice and undermines the security but that's what Microsoft suggests. Unfortunately, none of this seems to help - I still get constant errors that I don't have permission to write files to various locations on my hard drives.

How do I get rid of these stupid error messages? Is there a way to turn off whatever stupid security is preventing this?

This seems to still be a major issue as I find thousand of users who are also in the same situation when I Googled it. I had been avoiding installing Windows 7 as long as possible and might go back to XP again.

EDIT: I'm also the Admin.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-05-31T06:24:04+00:00

    Thanks for your time and help.  Took me some time but i found out the  my quickheal antivirus was the source of the problem,  as soon as i turned secure browsing off,  problem was solved..... Ty anyways.....  :)

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-10-20T23:01:31+00:00

    I had 7 put on a computer that was working perfectly, and then this problem.  I found something that seems very simple but no one has mentioned on any other site.

    1.  Right click on the drive.  2.  Click on Properties   3.  Click on Security  4.  click on the Group or User Name so it it highlighted.  5.  Click on the Edit button that is Grey  6.  When you do this you will notice that the box that is labeld PERMISSIONS FOR ADMINISTRATORS will now show boxes that are labeled ALLOW  OR  DENY.  Now you check the boxes and hit the APPLY button when you are done.  This will then send the computer into going through the files to give permission. 

    You can go through each group or name, and drive.  This took care of the problem for me and I haven't had one problems since.

    im not an IT person but all i can say is i have not seen or read of another solution.  Others have suggested quite complex steps that only complicated things.  So this may only be a solution to a smaller issue but it works

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-10-01T17:08:48+00:00

    As I mentioned, there are several issues with various lacations. I can't even make or delete files in many locations.

    I cannot write to files on the root of either of my hard drives - both partitions of both hard drives. I can rename files (which seems kinda lame that I can do that but not delete).

    I cannot read or write to variuous folders on my hard drives (some of these are apparently Windows 7 folders that users are not allowed to look in because...).

    I cannot delete some icons from my desktop (I'm not allowed to delete the Adobe Acrobat Reader icon - WTF?!?).

    These issues were all present before I changed any permissions or finding out what the UAC is. As soon as I installed Windows 7, it was one permission problem after another and has been a constant headache.

    I was able locate a third party application which is apparently neccessary to make a dual boot work (since the Windows 7 install jacked up XP install on my other drive).  For some reason, it was able to edit the boot file (even though I didn't Run As Admin or anythign else special).

    XP was able to delete the large ISOs on the root that Win7 wouldn't let me. I haven't tried booting into Win 7 Safe Mode yet.

    Solution: Keep XP installed and use XP instead of Windows 7 to work around the Windows 7 permission issues.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-09-27T14:13:16+00:00

    It would have helped if you had given details of where or the path you are trying to save, presumably data to.

    Permission issues are caused primarily by end users fiddling with the default permissions

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-09-27T09:04:03+00:00

    Hi,

    1.    Have you made any software or hardware changes to the computer prior to this issue?

    2.    Was it working correctly earlier?

    3.    How many hard drives are present in the computer?

    4.    Is the issue with a particular hard drive or partition?

    Start your computer in safe mode.

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

    Check if the issue persists in safe mode.

    Hope this information is helpful

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