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Administrator doesn't have permission to save files in some places
I'm running into a weird permissions issue I've never seen before on my brand new computer I got for Christmas. My computer has only one user account, since I'm the only person who uses it, and that account has administrator rights. Yet for some reason, I'm getting told I don't have permission to save files in the Program Files folder, or any folder within that folder. The message I get says this.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Old Documents Backup\test.doc
You don't have permission to save in this location.
Contact the administrator to obtain permission.
Would you like to save in the My Documents folder instead?
The weirdest part about me not having permission to save files to the 'Prograam Files (x86)' folder is that I CAN Delete anything I want in there, and copy any files/folders I want into there. I can also open any files there and read them just fine, but not save my changes to the same folder (or even overwrite the same document), Microsoft office says all the word documents I open in there are read only in the header.
At first I thought the documents I copied over from my old computer somehow got marked read only, but they aren't, the folder they're in isn't marked read only either.
On my old computer (also windows 7, but with much less power) I never had problems like this with the documents/etc I stored in the Program Files (x86) folder.
I've been looking the internet for over an hour for an answer for this, and haven't had much luck.
So bottom line, I need help at fixing this permissions issue.
(Note: While I know I could save my files somewhere other then Program Files (x86) to get around this problem, I want to fix the problem not work around it)