Updated 7 to 10 and now having issues with admin rights on my C: drive. I get an annoying warning box every time I try to copy a file to the C: or rename one (saying need admin rights, yet click ok and its fine !). I checked my account and I'm logged in as admin !?.
Thanks in advance.
Hi, that's normal. Windows is trying to protect you from doing something you shouldn't normally.
Create and use a folder.
You can turn down, or even turn off User Access Control Enable or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows
Windows 10 is obviously different then Windows 7.
Also, the movie file you deleted, may have had different permissions set to it
Windows ten has closed a few of the wide open loopholes that were left in older versions of windows, one of the major issues was the unprotected access to the root of drives and partitions. This can allow malware to sit in the root of a drive and gain access to other parts of the system. The malware uses certain Pseudo user accounts such as C$ or admin$ to hide in and perform it's damage.
This protection can be overridden on a file by file basis but the overall protection is implemented at the OS level, with the simple workaround of creating a regular folder to act as a root or redirect the user Data folders elsewhere on the system a simple solution
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