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Ever since windows vista introduced user account control (UAC) users have been spending their lives answering to authorisation and elevation prompts to manage some special folders like C:\Program Files; and I have been spending hours of customer support trying to explain the reason to many xplorer˛ customers. The essense of UAC is that nobody is running with full administrator privileges unless he explicitly requests so. In older windows pre-vista, you had normal users and administrators. If you logged on as an administrator you had full access to your computer's resources. With UAC even administrators are running with reduced privileges so they cannot modify 'protected' folders. "But I am the administrator!" is the usual response in disbelief. Sorry you aren't. The idea is to strip access rights even from administrators so that viruses and other malware cannot slip in throught the back door. I always advocated running as a normal user to avoid virus problems, and now microsoft made all of us effectively normal users, which is good for security. Shutting the door to malware means that you make your life a bit harder too. You don't want malware modifying DLLs in your windows system folder, and the price you pay is these darn UAC prompts. "You'll need to provide administrator permission to rename this folder" Sir. You must click on the button with the little shield icon and may need to provide an administrator password to complete the operation. All programs are affected by UAC in vista and windows 7, including xplorer˛. When you start xplorer˛ normally it is running with reduced privileges so it cannot delete files in C:\windows and similar folders. Here's what you can do to work around this limitation:
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