Windows 10 'Folder Access Denied'

[tintin82]

Hi guys, I have searched everywhere for a answer for the following question but am out of luck, maybe some one can help.

I upgraded for 7 to 10 and have noticed this annoying feature that appears only to happen in my 'C' drive. When I try to work with folder such as deleting them I get a warning saying ' you will need to provide admin permission to delete this folder', I click continue and the file deletes fine. So I have permission, but it is very annoying that this warning keeps appearing, and its only on C drive, not my storage drives.

Now when I go to cmd and do the net user administrator /active:yes to enable the master admin account and log into that the issue to away.

So is there any way to remove this small but annoying warning.

My UAC settings are at 'Never'


Thanks for the help

 

[Six6siX]

It's the same for Program Files - without elevated administrator rights you can't write to C:\ - even with UAC set to off.

The solution? Stop putting loads of files/folders on your C:\ root
Why would you even do that?!

You could alternatively set the following registry key to 0 and reboot

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA

but be careful as this also prevents any Windows 'Apps' from running (note that this includes Edge and Calculator, to name a couple of built in ones).

 

[tintin82]

Thanks very much for your reply.

So basically I cannot get around this? That I can live with. I do not have many files on C drive, it was just an annoying thing I noticed, and being a pernickity kinda person I had to look for a fix!

Thanks again

 

[Jim99]

You're best off just putting the files elsewhere, e.g. in your documents or your downloads folder attached to your user profile.

It's not something that Windows expects you to do any more.