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Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations

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VanguardLH wrote:
> John C. wrote:
>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>> John C. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What led to my reinstalling W10 from scratch (at least as much as I
>>>> was able to do, since my system is so old that it can't boot from a
>>>> thumb drive) was that I was unable to save changes to my documents
>>>> without doing a workaround. It might have been that the problem was
>>>> due to CFA being activated when I did the first reinstall. 
>>>
>>> Or possibly your Windows account under which you were logged in did
>>> not have write permissions in the folder containing the file you
>>> could read. As I recall, when you attempt to save, but you don't
>>> have write permission, you are offered to save the modified file to
>>> elsewhere, like to the desktop.
>>
>> That was the weird thing about it. I did have write permission,
>> because my account then (as now) was an administrator one. And that
>> it was only specific folders (like Documents and Pictures) where I
>> was blocked from altering files, that kind of points towards CFA.
> 
> By default, CFA is disabled.  You had to deliberately manually enable it
> to throttle access to files in your Documents folder.  Users had to
> discover the feature, enable it, and realize it was too onerous.  I'm
> assuming you are logging in under a local or Microsoft account, and not
> on a workstation that is part of a corporate domain where policies can
> be pushed by a PDA server.

Not sure what a PDA server is. I'm using a local account on a one-user
system, non-networked.

Nice to know that CFA is disabled by default. Onerous indeed when it's
enabled.

> Also, Administrator, or Windows accounts in the Administrators security
> group, do not have all privileges.  There will still be folders to which
> you are not granted full access.  That's why I leave UAC enabled.  If I
> don't have access, UAC notifies me, and UAC will elevate my permissions
> if I request it to do so.  A lot easier than me right-clicking on a
> folder to look under the Security tab to check what all permissions my
> Windows account had on the folder to figure out what to change.

How enabled do you leave it? Just curious.

Thanks for your reply, VanguardLH.

-- 
John C.

Take back Microsoft from India.

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