I bought a laptop for a friend that has Vista on it. I’m used to XP and am trying to migrate her XP setup to the new Vista computer. I went through the install and it created an administrator account for her. But I went into her “Applications Data” folder and I’m getting “Access is Denied”.
I guess being an Administrator doesn’t even get you into your own folders.
These “Vista sucks” articles, well, suck.
The blame lies with your own incompetence, not Vista.
I ordered a new Dell with Vista Ultimate on it and never had a problem with it. Granted it was a new box with a load of ram and high speed drives. The only think I didn’t like was Vista seemed to thrash the hard drives for some reason. I wouldn’t be doing anything and the drives were just ripping along. Other than that I thought Vista was fine.
I just upgraded to Win 7 and that seems to be going well and is more Vista R2 than a radically new OS.
This and a number of other “folders” are what in unix would be called a symbolic link. Microsoft has moved things around for obscure purposes and the older names are retained for compatibility purposes but all they do is link to a different folder where the data really resides. You can’t delete the link since that would compromise system compatibility. You can’t open the folder because it isn’t a folder and has no contents.
In most cases I’ve found, there is another folder somewhere with a very similar name (remember the bit about obscure purposes?) and that is where the link points.
This is only a problem if you know what you are doing. For Aunt Millie, who leaves her data in a random sprawl across her hard drive, it works just fine.
I loath the way Vista keeps me out of my own files.
One reason I have no interest in 7 is that I think it will just get worse.
The folder renaming was actually an improvement. You’ll notice they took out all the spaces. This is more concise and more script friendly.
Actually there is much documentation about “proper” windows programming. A lot of it is ignored.
So where is the story?
Jam any windows Vista on my tablet PC and im more than happy with it. I used to hate Vista but after using if for about a year now, I pretty much used to it now. For me XP sucks, Lame , 8 years old OS.
In Vista, you will either want ‘C:\Users\[Account]\AppData’ for the user-level Application Data folder (for which you shouldn’t need to be an administrator) or ‘C:\ProgramData’ for the computer-level Application Data folder.
I’ve got problems with flash on my vista box and after checking the help forums and trying all the fixes, i still get browser crashes everyday sometimes taking the os with it and that’s in both ff and chrome.
You know what Marc Perkel, please don’t post anything if you have nothing interesting/significant/useful to say.
It was about your pet squirrel and now the vista bashing. It sounds more like a mundane personal journal entry and doesn’t fit in with DU overall worldview.
I’m sorry if I was harsh, but I had to say it!
@pedro: Are you paid to write dumb comments that stir chaos and arguments?
I think Windows 7 isn’t much different although I’ve never ran into the administrator issue myself. But people have been having problems running files and having to resort to “running as admin” creating another admin account, etc while they’re administrator already. Kinda sad really.
I gave Vista Ultimate 5 chances, there’s no way in hell I’ll go back to that screwed up OS…even with the fixes. Win7 for me 🙂
Windows 7 is Microsoft’s revenge! You can’t “upgrade” from XP to 7; you have to wipe XP off your system and install 7.
Or you can go to Ubuntu 9.04 with all your files. It’s time for a Change!
#47 You would want to “upgrade” from a 8 year old OS instead of doing a clean install? I wouldn’t upgrade to Win7 from Vista; I will do a clean install.
You’re still with Microsoft? In this day and age. Do you hunt rabbits with stone tipped arrows, too?
#48 @pedro: When you say that “your post was quite useless too”, you kinda agree that your yourself post was useless. I didn’t exactly mention that but kudos on your honesty.
#48 @pedro: A useless blog post and useless comment are entirely different things. Moreover, my comment is not any less useless than you non-stop whining.
And about the Vista bashing, a bad workman blames his tools. I have been working with vista trouble-free for 2 years.
… and you’re surprised at this?