Windows 7
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The one thing I hate is that I have one login on this machine, but the file system still shows 'my pictures', 'my downloads', etc under my documents ( twice, one folder and one shortcut ) and tells me I have no permission to open them when I try. Again, there is one login on this machine, I am the admin, the sole user, etc. Why show me stuff that I can't look at, but let me see it if I navigate to it slightly differently ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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It seems so old now, just wait until you have a PC in the lounge running Windows 7 Media Center - awesome I tell you.
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I agree - MS finally got it right. I also agree with CG that there are a few irritating quirks (mostly to do with rights as he so aptly points out), but on the whole, I'm very impressed with Seven. (Shouldn't take much to impress anybody that has been exposed to Windows Virus - eh, Vista - on the other hand :laugh: )
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There is no reason I can see, it's a sign they still have not fixed the new security code to work properly
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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The one thing I hate is that I have one login on this machine, but the file system still shows 'my pictures', 'my downloads', etc under my documents ( twice, one folder and one shortcut ) and tells me I have no permission to open them when I try. Again, there is one login on this machine, I am the admin, the sole user, etc. Why show me stuff that I can't look at, but let me see it if I navigate to it slightly differently ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I thought that only left me feeling a little irritated..
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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The one thing I hate is that I have one login on this machine, but the file system still shows 'my pictures', 'my downloads', etc under my documents ( twice, one folder and one shortcut ) and tells me I have no permission to open them when I try. Again, there is one login on this machine, I am the admin, the sole user, etc. Why show me stuff that I can't look at, but let me see it if I navigate to it slightly differently ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
How very odd and Microsoft-like.
Soon...very soon...http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]
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Welcome to the future of 2008. :rolleyes:
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In Windows Explorer try going to Libraries -> Documents in the left-hand window. Then in the right-hand window click on one of the "My ..." shortcuts and you will see what Christian is talking about.
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Then in the right-hand window click on one of the "My ..." shortcuts and you will see what Christian is talking about.
But why is he trying to open something with a padlock on it? I would not expect it to open either. Each of those locked folders has an "unlocked" counterpart that works just fine.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Then in the right-hand window click on one of the "My ..." shortcuts and you will see what Christian is talking about.
But why is he trying to open something with a padlock on it? I would not expect it to open either. Each of those locked folders has an "unlocked" counterpart that works just fine.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
but then why show me something I can't open?
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
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The one thing I hate is that I have one login on this machine, but the file system still shows 'my pictures', 'my downloads', etc under my documents ( twice, one folder and one shortcut ) and tells me I have no permission to open them when I try. Again, there is one login on this machine, I am the admin, the sole user, etc. Why show me stuff that I can't look at, but let me see it if I navigate to it slightly differently ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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In Windows Explorer try going to Libraries -> Documents in the left-hand window. Then in the right-hand window click on one of the "My ..." shortcuts and you will see what Christian is talking about.
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
When I do that it takes me to the appropriate directory. I set up a lot of windows 7 machines and none of them has exhibited the behavior you describe. (At least in the Libraries->Documents folder).
-Sean ---- Fire Nuts
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but then why show me something I can't open?
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
It has something to do with junction points and backward compatibility for programs that are unaware of the new folder structure in Windows Vista and 7. Programs trying to use those old folders will be silently redirected to the new location. There are many more places Windows will show you that you may not have permission to open. One more is nothing new. You could always configure Explorer to not show protected OS files.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Then in the right-hand window click on one of the "My ..." shortcuts and you will see what Christian is talking about.
But why is he trying to open something with a padlock on it? I would not expect it to open either. Each of those locked folders has an "unlocked" counterpart that works just fine.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
DavidCrow wrote:
ut why is he trying to open something with a padlock on it?
Well I don't know what Christian's window looks like, but there are no padlocks on mine; yet when I click on them I get a dialog box telling me I don't currently have permission to access them. So why are they named "My ...", rather than "Somebody's ... but you may get access to it if you do a double back somersault while singing the Microsoft Corporate Song in a squeaky voice"? ;P
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
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Be sure to get 64-bit pc. Of course, most pc sold now are 64-bit capable. There's nothing like running two Visual Studios, VMWare, Firefox, and Pandora on a 12GB pc with dual quad-core cpus and W7x64 (less than 50% memory). :)
Best wishes, Hans
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When I do that it takes me to the appropriate directory. I set up a lot of windows 7 machines and none of them has exhibited the behavior you describe. (At least in the Libraries->Documents folder).
-Sean ---- Fire Nuts
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Right, I suspect I may have set my systems up incorrectly. Thanks for the tip.
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
I will agree that the other issues are very annoying. For instance, I have 3 My Documents. One that is the unobtainable link, one that goes to my 'Documents' and one that has nothing in it.
-Sean ---- Fire Nuts
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The one thing I hate is that I have one login on this machine, but the file system still shows 'my pictures', 'my downloads', etc under my documents ( twice, one folder and one shortcut ) and tells me I have no permission to open them when I try. Again, there is one login on this machine, I am the admin, the sole user, etc. Why show me stuff that I can't look at, but let me see it if I navigate to it slightly differently ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
That's what you get for turning on show hidden/OS files. To allow badly written legacy apps (ie those that don't use win32 apis to get the folder locations) to keep working there're a whole mess of hidden shortcuts in the user folders. MS could've added yet another Really Really Really hidden files level; but 99% of us geeks who have show hidden files checked would just check Show Really Really Really hidden files as well so there'd not really be any point to it.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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It has something to do with junction points and backward compatibility for programs that are unaware of the new folder structure in Windows Vista and 7. Programs trying to use those old folders will be silently redirected to the new location. There are many more places Windows will show you that you may not have permission to open. One more is nothing new. You could always configure Explorer to not show protected OS files.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
DavidCrow wrote:
configure Explorer
ah, true, but I want to see those. need a different setting then.
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
