Permissions-Security and other such rubbish

[arturox]

I am being driven to despair by Vista (Basic) to the extent that sometime soon I'm going to break (that's me) and throw this nice Novatech Laptop out of the window.
I'm the administrator of this machine and I'm being blocked from changing various thing by annoying messages like."You will need to provide administrator permission to change attributes."
And similar cases, a particular one to illustrate.
C:\Users\Dave\Documents\My PSP8 Files.

For some reason, undoubtedly my fault because I've been trying to sort a LAN problem by changing some access settings, the above noted directory cannot be written to, nor any sub directories within it (You need permission to perform this action) and attempting to change the security settings... "An error occurred while applying security information to... (The above named).
Access Denied.
Or: "Unable to save permission changes on My PSP8 Files."
Access Denied.

I've had a look at Access Control and permissions Help, and while it all might mean something intelligible to some of you, to me, it's a meaningless collection of words.

So bottom line time.
Can any kind person help me out of this hole.
Cheers
Dave S

[Taxation]

right click then select "run as administrator"
in xp, on the logging in screen if you press ctrl+alt+del twice then it brings up the admins login

if worse comes to worse, you could try a system recovery

[arturox]

Thanks for the thoughts, appreciated.

I assume you mean right click Run the executable (PSP.Exe) as administrator.
I've already done that, and after running, attempted to Save a script from within PSP to the problem directory.
It still will not allow me to do anything with that dir, subdirs or files contained within, except Read only.

With regard to a system restore, yes well! I've done two of those, the first was a to few hours before the whatever it was I did happened, no change.
The second restore was to 5 days back, and while all the usual things happened, there was no change in the access to that and a few other directories.

Boohooo!

I suppose a supplementary question would be... How do I return all the access/permissions to the original default state?

Personally, I'd like all the security/access/permissions switched totally off, never to darken my machine again.
I assume MS in their blinkered wisdom never though of an off switch for this PITA.

I really like this Novatech laptop, but have a fast growing dislike of Vista... Nice computer shame about the OS.

Wish I could have purchased it with XP, for my mind a far better OS.

Cheers and thanks for the input.
Dave S

I await additional thoughts.

[arturox]

I've been messin' about some more and have now (So it seems) taken the restrictive permission off that set of directories, by re-assigning the owner.

I'm not sure of the minutia of what I did, but I'll play again tomorrow, and report back.

Cheers
Dave S

[arturox]

For me this subject is now closed as I really have sorted my problem.

In the Security-Advanced-Owner Tab, I as the Administrator, took ownership of the "Object" (Stupid description) and assigned it to Me the Administrator.
Closed the Properties window, then reopened the Properties window.
I reset the permissions in the usual Vista way.

Cheers
Dave S