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Why does every app need admin rights?
Hi,
I upgraded this week from Win XP (via new install, formatted drive C) to Win 7 Home Premium, currently 6.1.7600 Build 7600. For years, I have followed a method of using the C: partition for the system, and D: and E: for my application data. C: and E: are two partitions on hard disk 1, a Samsung 500 GB SATA drive. D: is on hard disk 0, a WDC 1.5 TB SATA drive.
All my basic applications, Thunderbird, eWallet, Legacy Family Tree, Picture Window, Thumbs Plus et al, read and write to my data on the E: drive and were all running fine under Windows XP. Now under Windows 7, they either need administrator rights or XP compatibility in order to have write access to the files on E:
I have tried the following, with properties on Drive E:
- made myself the owner (my normal user account, which has admin rights)
- given full access to myself and authenticated users, in addition to System & Admins
- when that didn't help, added Everyone and gave them full access to the E: Drive (and all sub folders and files; I am the only person using this computer)
Then I right-clicked on Start, Documents, Properties and added the E: drive to the library.
But in spite of all this, when I run any of the above-named applications, they have no write access to the files on Drive E. Eg. eWallet tells me it only has read access to my wallet file, Legacy Family Tree thinks the data is on a read-only CD ROM, Thunderbird spins forever trying to access my e-mail "local folders" on E:, etc. If these apps are running in the context of my user account (from where I start them), shouldn't they have the same rights which my account has? But only if I give an application Administrator rights or tell it to use XP compatibility will it work properly and have full write access to my data files on the E: drive.
As I'd like to avoid this if possible (this can't be the way it's supposed to work), could someone please tell me how to set this up properly?
Thanks very much, Bob