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| Unless you unhid the "real" Administrator accounts on the Vista machines, you are NOT logging in as the admin. This is a common misconception carried over from XP where the default user was created as a full-access Administrator. This is NOT the case with Vista -- in which the default user account is a General user, with only some admin rights.
Also, a second misconception is that turning off UAC automatically grants full access permissions to the default user. This is also NOT true.
Finally, also unlike XP, Vista has locked out some of the standard directories against access, so even as the real Administrator, you will still get access denied messages. This is a typical source of confusion and frustration when you're trying to copy files from either Program Files or Documents and Settings on XP to the similar locations on Vista -- Vista simply won't let you do that.
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| How do I unhide the "real" admin features, then? I am running Vista through BootCamp, and it's not letting me delete some program files I intend to never use (such as Windows Media Player and the MSN crap). I already changed the owner of C drive to my account (is this a bad idea?) and gave myself "full control" permission, and yet it is still giving me the "destination folder access denied" message.
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| Go into our General Technical forum, where you'll find a pinned post about how to do that.
Since you mentioned Boot Camp, I'm presuming you're trying to do this on a Mac? If that's the case, all bets are off as any infrastructure abnormalities are likely to be the victim of emulation glitches. You may be lucky in that someone else here may be able to replicate and debug your problems, but this community is largely native Windows users, with a few Linux users as well.
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| | Hi, I had this problem (Destination Folder Access Denied) 3-4 months ago trying to copy files between vista and xp in a workgroup environment, no domain. I was not able to share vistas files without compromising the security...
Recently I reinstalled the machines and after applying the latest patches from ms it worked fine. machine 1:
vista home->service pack1->+patches:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-dec.mspx
+Affected Software and Download Locations
+Windows Operating System and Components
+Windows Vista machine 2:
xp pro sp3 +patches
+Windows XP
shared a folder on vista and when accessed from xp it ask for user and password. I provided the local vista user - it is different from xp. Everything is working now. I can copy and paste files freely.
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| | YES! That is the solution. Thank You. |
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| | What worked for me and I hope works for you is to reboot your computer in safemode then try deleting the folder(s) you wish to delete. |
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| Hey everyone,
I'm having the same problem but with a little different configuration and I'm pulling my hair out. I've been going in circles for two days and I'm starting to lose my mind.
I have a new Vista Home Premium laptop that can see my home desktop running XP SP3; however, when I try and transfer files from my XP desktop to the Vista Laptop I get the message "destination folder access denied. You need permission to perform this action"
I dont know what to do. I thought I had permission and I thought I was running administrator on both machines... any help is super appreciated!
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| You're almost certainly NOT running as Admin on the Vista machine -- unless you went to the trouble to unhide the true Admin account and are logging in using that. Look a few posts up for info on where to go to find out how to unhide the real Admin account. It doesn't work the same way as it did on XP.
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| | That's either a) a totally naive answer or b) a true answer to a moronic oversight by microsoft. Excuse me folks, but isn't copying files over a network a very fundamental task our operating system should come ready to do? I'm also struggling trying to copy files off my old XP machine. Vista will do a few hundred files and then for some apparently random reason refuse to copy other files. I have over 22,000 files I need to copy. So far I've gotten through 350 of them, but there's still 13 that I had to "skip" because of this moronic DFAD error message. I've waited until now to go to Vista because I've heard horror stories. I figured now that Service Pac 2 is out, MS should have most of the major bugs worked out. I can't believe that this is still unresolved! I'm trying very hard to be constructive here. But WTF????????????????????????????????????????? |
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| WAW8 (8/1/2009)
You're almost certainly NOT running as Admin on the Vista machine -- unless you went to the trouble to unhide the true Admin account and are logging in using that. Look a few posts up for info on where to go to find out how to unhide the real Admin account. It doesn't work the same way as it did on XP.Why on earth should we have to log in as the "secret administrator" to simply copy some files that are sitting on another computer? (files that are already shared by XP with permissions to "share" and "allow network users to change my files") Doesn't anyone at MS scratch their head and ask themselves if this makes sense? Why on earth are we required to do things like this? The other solutions on this topic are equally ridiculous. ie. -Requiring the files be PUSHED from the XP machine rather than pulled from the Vista machine? Huh? What if the files are on a server in another room? That's silly! - Requiring we disable User Access Control (then just what good is UAC in the first place?) - Requiring we log in a secret administrator? (is every user out there who wants to share files in my office supposed to do this) I can't believe Vista has been out this long and it still suffers from bugs like this. Simply amazing. |
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