No rights to access C

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I have a fresh copy of Windows 7 installed on my new Samsung 830 128 Gb SSD. When I copy files to or from C drive it prompts me a message if I want to use administrator privileges. For example, if I want to run Photoshop from a shortcut on desktop, I have to right click it and select run as an administrator because my normal account doesn't have rights to modify or execute on the C drive.

I haven't modified the users privileges. Last Windows installation worked on HDD.

MikkoP

Posted 2012-06-17T10:00:06.617

Reputation: 591

Answers

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If by "modify or execute on the C drive" you are referring to files in the root of the C drive, then yes, you need admin privileges to change or create files and folders in the root folder. But you should be able to access C:\users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents without problem.

Fran

Posted 2012-06-17T10:00:06.617

Reputation: 4 774

Yes, actually I didn't test so far that I would have noticed that. I just copied files from root of C and it asked me the administrator rights. Thanks! – MikkoP – 2012-06-18T18:04:37.290

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