Windows 10: Windows 10 - Desktop App Permission Issues - My Microsoft Account Admin - No access even...

I'm not sure what the latest batch of updates from Microsoft have done, but I'm running into serious permission issues with applications that were working fine not too long ago.


I did a full clean install of Windows 10 earlier this week.

I reinstalled my applications and I am getting write permission issues on my primary drive where my OS is installed. Specifically my Documents folder. Many of these applications such as Substance Painter and Roblox Studio are trying to autosave to their respective folders in Documents and I'm getting repeated errors.

Worse is that this is locking me out of basic functionality to create assets and export based on preferences.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get access back to my own Documents folder? During installation it created the folder. Why can't it access it?

I checked the security tab and I see that Administrator has a red X by it. I haven't done anything on this computer to attempt to share files or folders with other computers and I can't find very good information online about how to address this issue.

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Windows 10 Permissions Issues

Hooray!!!! Thanks so much, you are a superstar. Issue resolved.

I thought the fact that "Administrators" were listed in the permissions meant that all Admins had access, but apparently not. Now I added my specific login account, it works fine.

Thanks so much for your help, these UAC things in Windows are quite confusing, I am not (entirely) stupid!!

 

Strange Windows 10 User Account issue.

Unfortunately I had done those steps numerous reboots, it just, reappears for no good reason. The base account isn't even a Microsoft account, it's a local account.

I haven't quite tried the built in administrator account on W10, but so far in my experience on my own computer, the built in account seemed to have absolutely no more control than I did on my own.

It's just strange, I go in, it warns me twice about deleting the account, then it's gone. Reboot, and it's back?

EDIT: Just to specify, both command line and Netplwiz both say only HIS account exists on the computer, it doesn't list this rogue account. This is what I meant in my first post about the fact that even Windows doesn't seem to believe it exists, HALF the time. *Frown

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

• Launch the Store from your Start menu.
• Click the user icon next to the search box.
• Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
• Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
• When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

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