I hate keeping my files within my user profile. The path is long and a real
pain in the posterior. I do create files in directories off the root and
you can grant access to just one person, group, or several persons/groups if
you are running NTFS. Sometimes you have to tell the user that you won't
help because what he wants is just stupid. With Microsoft finally using
some of the ideas that Unix has had for twenty years, we don't need to
revert to MS-DOS or Windows 95. We might have a chance of eliminating some
of the current problems of the wild, wild, west (internet).

Getting users just to use a hardware firewall router seems to be a struggle.
Keeping a current antivirus running seems to be another problem for many
users. They buy a computer with NAV or some other installed with a 90 day
trial. Then, they ignore the popups and four years later when someone calls
me, they are infected with spyware and viruses. Of course, no computer
today comes with even a short handbook on proper practices and if they did
most would not read it.

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ORNN9eX9GHA.4196@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> cn indicated he/she was aware of the dangers of doing this, I was merely
> providing the means. Part of the security design is to keep a user's files
> within their profile, but a percentage of users will always want to do
> something different, even if it poses a danger to them.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>
> "David J. Craig" <Dave@yoshimuni.com> wrote in message
> news:eZEdW$W9GHA.4552@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Very bad idea. Only properly credentialed admins should be creating
>> directories or files in the root directory. You can overwrite boot files
>> with viral code if anyone can do it. Look at most of the various forms
>> of Unix/Linux, and mainframe OSes. The user can create a file if needed
>> by running his program with a manifest that requires it to have admin
>> rights, but only for the few that need it. I suspect there is an API for
>> a program to ask UAC to prompt for rights for the duration of that need,
>> but most of the time it should remain a standard user.
>>
>> P.S. I can think of no valid reason for Microsoft Word to have admin
>> rights to edit/create documents. With all the exploits in Office, why
>> would you let it?
>>
>> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:OAepvuW9GHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Change permissions for the Users group, giving them full control.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best of Luck,
>>>
>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
>>> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>>>
>>> "cn" <cnuse********.com> wrote in message
>>> news:71AD9597-090F-4EE0-9BAA-DF4FD6A16D62@microsoft.com...
>>>> How can I save my word files on root of vista system drive while
>>>> keeping UAC?
>>>[/color]
>>
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