Read Write Create Permissions are not allowed for software installed by third paries

Question

First: I tried to find the solution here and here on this website to no avail;
and also did some research into a read-write-permission in windows similar to chmod 777 in Linux.

It took me a week to find out the pattern of my problem:
Whenever I install a serious well known third party software, such as VLC from Videolan.org, and LMMS and thunderbird,
I get problems which are related to the software not being able to write files:

1. In LMMS, when I try to save anything I am told: "Could not open C:/Users/[...].mmpz for writing. You probably are not permitted to write to this file. Please make sure you have write-access to the file and try again."
2. Thunderbird works properly and saves drafts, but does fail since a week (a month after installation) to save the proper times of the mails.
3. VLC player does save playlists but is not capable of saving a played movie position, so each movie always starts fresh from start again.

The reason I post my question here is because obviously seems to be some kind of bug in Windows 11, which was preinstalled on my Acer laptop.

Attempts to solve it were:

• I tried to change the read/write settings of the projects folder as described in the first article.
• When this did not work I did recreate it by hand, delete it and replace it with my own fresh one.
• On VLC, my playlist is not even in a specific folder (but maybe the settings which save the play-position are).
• I also tried to reinstall LMMS as an admin which didn't change anything.
• Changing the read-write-premissions of individual folders - even adding "everyone" and giving them all rights, did not work.

Any help would be greatly apprecciated, because I am reaching an impasse here. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are  having query\issues related  to Software Installation permission.

This can be issue with your User profile instead of Folder permissions.

1. Disable any Antivirus program or Windows firewall you may have for temporary purpose.

2. Cleanup below Temp folders location -> Open Start -> Run -> Type below location one-by-one and press enter 
     C:\Windows\Temp
     %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

3. Please create a new Windows user account and make group of Administrators.
 
4. Try to install other software like WinZip or WinRar.

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Answer 2

Double post