Winodws 8 Read Only

[eliteKMA]

I bought a Samsung 840 120GB last week and installed Windows 8 Pro 64b.

Problem is, the system drive, or at least the "program files" folder, is in read only...
It's actually really weird because steam installed games without a problem but supercopier or ultracopier wouldn't copy anything. Windows copy manager had no problems though it was sometimes asking for adminstrator confirmation(I am the admin). I installed call of duty 2 and 4 without a problem but the game couldn't write .cfg or mods in the default folder(had to go to appdata to find them).

So i really don't know what is going on and it's really annoying. I also do not have that problem on my laptop (w8 Pro 32b).

 

Is it the SSD somehow? Windows 8 64b?

[GoodBytes]

You need Administrative privileges to write in Program Files, also many other locations in the C:\ drive.

Since Vista, no one is true Administrator.

 

To solve your problem, Right-click on the supercopier or ultracopier program executable or shortcut, and select Run as administrator. Now, it should work. :)

 

The reason why Steam have no problem, is that Steam follows the Microsoft documentation on how to do this, which allows the program to request to Windows elevation while it is running, and this is where you got prompt. If you didnt', it's because you probably did it before.. like if Steam needed to be updated.

 

In other words, the devs of supercopier or ultracopier are probably still using XP, or too lazy to fix it. That would be my guess.

 

Hope this helps.

[eliteKMA]

hum... This is really weird. I never had that sort of a problem, and I installed a lot of windows (XP, 7) on a lot of different hardware. And my W8 laptop does not have that problem... I don't understand.

[Fetzie]

You need to take ownership of the folders.

 

Basically, Microsoft knows that most users will, at some point, misclick on a folder and hit "delete" and thus eff up their Windows installation, leading to long tech support conversations for their front-line support staff. Therefore Microsoft has made it impossible for a normal user (even an administrator) to alter system files without jumping through some hoops.

[GoodBytes]

Correct. It's more strict on Win8.

 

As for your laptop, probably you, or the setup you used, installed a scheduler task, like CCleaner does, to not being prompt for admin privileged at startup, and run as startup on the back.

That would be my guess.