How to configure administrator permissions

Hello, I need help to configure the administrator permissions in the correct way, I made a mess and now I'm back to how it was before and I would like to do this in the best way

what I need? in Windows 7 for example I could do anything on Disk C like save a file or create a notepad, I could go to other SSDs and do whatever I wanted without any problem, that's what I would like to do in Windows 10

I create a copy of a file on disk c and I can't edit it, I can't edit a notepad that I pasted on disk c using another Windows, I can't edit a notepad on another SSD, I can't save files in some locations like disk c, I can't create notepad on c disk

What is the best way to resolve this? There is only my user (offline) and I am already an admin, but it is as if this is ignored by the system, please help me with this

Try3 said:

You could try these but I have no idea if they will help because it all depends on what you have done.
Quickly Reset NTFS Permissions - WinAero
Is there a utility to reset all W10 permissions back to defaults - TenForums
Resetting NTFS files permission in Windows - Graphical Utility - lallous lab
Change Permissions of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key for Users and Groups - TenForumsTutorials


Denis

Thank you, this is useful if I need to restore to the original, but it doesn't help with what I really want to do, I want to be free to edit files on disk c like a simple notepad, save files wherever I want and do what I want on other SSDs, what is the best way please

Nevadasan said:

Hello, I need help to configure the administrator permissions in the correct way, I made a mess and now I'm back to how it was before and I would like to do this in the best way

what I need? in Windows 7 for example I could do anything on Disk C like save a file or create a notepad, I could go to other SSDs and do whatever I wanted without any problem, that's what I would like to do in Windows 10

I create a copy of a file on disk c and I can't edit it, I can't edit a notepad that I pasted on disk c using another Windows, I can't edit a notepad on another SSD, I can't save files in some locations like disk c, I can't create notepad on c disk

What is the best way to resolve this? There is only my user (offline) and I am already an admin, but it is as if this is ignored by the system, please help me with this

Try starting Notepad with administrative privileges.

Ben

Try3 said:

Well, none of us are.
Windows has Permissions set up that are intended to prevent damage to the OS.
Just like the manufacturer of your kettle might well have secured its casing using screws with triangular slots in the hope of preventing its removal by customers.

You would have to change Permissions yourself to allow you to save in unorthodox locations on the OS drive [C:\]. The Permissions tutorial [link above] explains the procedure to use.


You can probably do that since you will have set up other disks yourself and are unlikely to have put any restrictive Permissions on them.


Denis

In the partitions of other SSDs that have Windows installed, I also cannot create files or save them

dalchina said:

Suggests you've messed up permissions somehow. That isn't normally a problem.

Have you been changing or attempting to reset permissions somehow? What actions have you actually taken that you've not stated?

It could be hard to impossible to correct random changes when we have no idea what these are.

Tweaking.com's free repair tool offers some options related to permissions. I suppose you could try that, but only use the MINIMUM of the repairs. Do NOT blindly apply all - and follow its instructions carefully.

What IS a problem is your expectation of readily being able to access anything and everything everywhere on C:
That's a bit like opening up your EV's bonnet (hood in the USA) and taking a spanner and a screwdriver to the engine, and expecting then for the car to work as normal.


Wise people take precautions. The routine use of 3rd party disk imaging to offline storage is endlessly recommended by members here- so you can get back to where you were should you do something wrong, or something goes wrong, from disk failure to theft. Free programs available.

just to be clear, I said the mess was fixed, it was a new install, I did it again

about opening the hood, if I don't do anything wrong everything will be fine I believe, I did this for a long time and never had any problems, but I would like to change that now and try to make it the safest way, but I would just like to edit a simple notepad but that's not possible
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The only way to do what I want I think would be to disable "admin approval" through local security policy

I'm going to do it the way I thought, move the file to the desktop, edit it and then return it to C

Thanks to everyone who commented