New Win7 user having problems with security & permissions

Hello everyone,

I started using Windows 7 a few months ago and I'm probably still not aware of all of its basic features you find yourself messing with everyday. The main issue I have with it, is the permissions limitations and / or the user account types, two things I don't recall messing with, when I was using Win XP.

I think the root of the problem is that my user is not "fully recognized" as an administrator. I.E., when going to a folder's properties, I see quite many terms that simply try to divide users (I'm a solo users of my PC, which I think is pretty obvious), into security-related groups:

Administrators
Users (user-PC\Users)
Authenticated Users

and there's also an 'Owner'. Also, for some reason when administrators have full control, I don't. Which is pretty weird, since my user account is of administrator-type.

I really don't want to get into what everything means; what I simply need is to get direct access to my files without messing with notifications, errors, permissions and the like. These are pretty useless to me as I'm no organization or company, and running a simple and basic PC for my daily studies and leisure. No Pentagon secrets or whatever... :)

Well, having said all that, could someone guide me through the process of turning these features off, or at least configuring them in a way I won't be needing to mess around again ?

Thanks

Roderunner - thanks for your clarification. It doesn't answer my question though, yet helpful and useful information.

My main issue was the permissions I'm supposed to be having in order to gain full access to my files. I've figured I need to take ownership of everything, though I'd still like to get rid of that method of control, and have an absolute access to anything, as I used to have on Windows XP and 98 in the past. No permissions or security 'hierarchy' like I have now.

Roderunner said:

In my five or so years using a pc, from xp, vista & win7, I've never had any ownership issues. If your unable to access files NOT on C: drive, copy them to C: delete originals then put them back from the copies you made.

Do you know a way to disable the permission system entirely ? I find it completely useless at this point, and pretty much annoying too.

On the other side, I might not be able to see the whole picture - simply out of ignorance. Does it have any advantages to someone like me who is the only person to use his PC ?

Thanks

Sure - here are an example of the permission warning, the inability to create files, and the 'hierarchy' of security permission groups.

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Sorry - I might have puzzled you here. The problem is shown in the pictures themselves. Here they are:

The permission warning:



the inability to create files (previously occured on C: root until I messed with the ownership function, which took quite a lot of time considering its importance)




and the 'hierarchy' of security permission groups. (note the various types of categories - I've no idea which one I belong to. Nor do I think I should even care about it.)



This is what I would like to disable.