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UAC Confusion
Our household has 3 new laptops. On each there is just one user account, and these are administrator accounts. I have tested each laptop and the same problem described below occurs:
- Photos on the laptop, loaded into Windows Live Photo Gallery
- Photo Gallery tells me that the files cannot be edited as they are read only. They are not read only!
- Photo Gallery lets me do nothing other than rename the files but only after the following:
a) A message telling me I need to have admin privileges to carry out the actionI know why b) occurs and I know how to turn this off but why is a) occurring? Even if I run the application as administrator, the same happens. That has really confused me.
b) When I say "OK" to the first dialogue as described in a) I then get a blasted UAC message confirming that I can let the program alter the file.
On one laptop we have Photoshop Elements (and another HP editing application which was pre-installed) and neither allows editing of any kind... it does not even ask about needing admin privileges, it just assumes the files are non editable. All a bit of an issue as one of the laptops was bought specifically for image editing etc..
I never had this problem with Vista but given that all 3 Win7 laptops exhibit the same issue, is there something fundamental I am missing or need to change? I have tested turning off UAC completely which cures the problem but it makes no sense as the files I am trying to edit/rename are not system files, just photo files.
Any ideas as I am stumped?