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Windows 10 permissions is doing my head in
Hi
I have recently decided to start using Windows 10 rather than Windows 7 -- and I'm starting to really wonder if it was a wise move. The reason??? Permissions. I wrote a text file earlier today and tried saving it where I have placed all such files for the last 15-20 years. But no, windows decided I don't have permission to save to that location. Instead it asked me if I wanted to place it in my Documents folder. I said yes. However, yet again it told me I do not have permission and asked me again if I wanted to place it in my Documents folder -- and yes I was was caught in a loop. Easy enough to drop out of thankfully but somehow I managed to find a drive I could save my file to. Now I am trying to work out just what I can save to where.
Does anyone have an easy-to-follow tutorial that may explain exactly what Windows 10 permissions are all about? Quite frankly I am so close to giving up on Windows 10 as I am finding the subject of permission so damned frustrating and confusing. Why have MS made permissions bloody difficult to understand, and as for taking ownership!!! Can't they understand that for many user its a very scary subject. I don't consider myself a bimbo when it comes to using a PC but Windows 10 really is beginning to get to me big time. So I ask again is there any easy-to-follow tutorial which explains in easy terms just what the point is of permissions and why they have been made such an important part of computing that the sole user of a PC can't save to particular locations. It just seems so short-sighted and downright stupid. Sorry if I'm sounding off rather but its how I'm feeling just at the moment.
Tracey