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Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations

From VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations
Date 2025-03-03 14:26 -0600
Organization Usenet Elder
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"John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>
>> "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> 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.

Also, Administrator, or Windows accounts in the Administrators security
group, do not have all priveleges.  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.

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Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 06:46 -0800
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 09:26 -0600
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-06 12:00 -0500
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-06 17:59 +0000
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-02-06 13:47 -0500
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 14:16 -0700
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 17:26 -0800
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 17:40 -0800
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 21:11 -0600
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 12:59 +0000
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-02-07 07:24 -0600
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-07 10:57 -0500
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-07 16:40 +0000
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 15:24 -0800
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 21:12 -0600
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 04:17 -0800
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-07 08:18 -0600
          Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 15:31 -0800
            Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-07 19:10 -0600
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 09:37 -0700
      Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-02 05:42 -0800
        Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-02 14:50 -0600
          Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-03 06:19 -0800
            Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-03 14:26 -0600
              Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-04 04:04 -0800
                Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-04 11:53 -0600
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 16:48 +0000
  Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Mr Xi Ji Ping <ping@china.cn> - 2025-02-07 03:00 +0000
    Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 04:19 -0800

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