I'm using Windows Vista, and its multiple layers of security are preventing
me from doing everyday normal things like bookmarking websites in my
"Favorites" folder.

If I merely want to mark a website as a favorite, Vista lets me do this.
However, I have a dozen different folders in my favorites, and I want to
save the website's URL in the proper folder. Vista currently won't let me do
this. When I try to save a URL in a favroites folder, I get a very vague
error message:

"Unable to create (name of website): Unspecified Error"

Not very helpful, huh?

Currently, I have an awkward way of getting around this. I save a website's
URL to my general Favorites folder, and then go to "Organize Favorites", and
then drag the URL to the proper folder within Favorites. Even this is a
headache, because when I do this Vista stops me:

"Destination Folder Access Denied: You'll need to provider Administrator
Permission to move this folder"

I hit "Continue", then Windows Vista gives me another warning: "Windows
Needs Your Permission to Continue". Only then will it actually move the URL
to the right folder.

All this seems excessively frustrating. Any ideas on how I can get reset my
system so that it lets me do this without a hassle? There are two accounts
on my PC, my wife's and my own. My wife's one may be the admin account.



Robert

"Robert" <robert@nospamplease.com> wrote in message
news:aY3ti.99$ls4.81@trndny07...[color=blue]
> I'm using Windows Vista, and its multiple layers of security are
> preventing me from doing everyday normal things like bookmarking websites
> in my "Favorites" folder.
>
> If I merely want to mark a website as a favorite, Vista lets me do this.
> However, I have a dozen different folders in my favorites, and I want to
> save the website's URL in the proper folder. Vista currently won't let me
> do this. When I try to save a URL in a favroites folder, I get a very
> vague error message:
>
> "Unable to create (name of website): Unspecified Error"
>
> Not very helpful, huh?
>
> Currently, I have an awkward way of getting around this. I save a
> website's URL to my general Favorites folder, and then go to "Organize
> Favorites", and then drag the URL to the proper folder within Favorites.
> Even this is a headache, because when I do this Vista stops me:
>
> "Destination Folder Access Denied: You'll need to provider Administrator
> Permission to move this folder"
>
> I hit "Continue", then Windows Vista gives me another warning: "Windows
> Needs Your Permission to Continue". Only then will it actually move the
> URL to the right folder.
>
> All this seems excessively frustrating. Any ideas on how I can get reset
> my system so that it lets me do this without a hassle? There are two
> accounts on my PC, my wife's and my own. My wife's one may be the admin
> account.
>
>
>
> Robert
>
>[/color]
If she is Admin then get her to go Control Panel/Users and click to turn
User Account Control OFF

--
Ian

"Unspecified error" when adding a link to Favorites in Windows Vista:
[url]http://www.winhelponline.com/blogs/49/quotUnspecified-errorquot-when-adding-a-link-to-Favorites-in-Windows-Vista.html[/url]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting [url]http://www.winhelponline.com[/url]


"Robert" <robert@nospamplease.com> wrote in message news:aY3ti.99$ls4.81@trndny07...
I'm using Windows Vista, and its multiple layers of security are preventing
me from doing everyday normal things like bookmarking websites in my
"Favorites" folder.

If I merely want to mark a website as a favorite, Vista lets me do this.
However, I have a dozen different folders in my favorites, and I want to
save the website's URL in the proper folder. Vista currently won't let me do
this. When I try to save a URL in a favroites folder, I get a very vague
error message:

"Unable to create (name of website): Unspecified Error"

Not very helpful, huh?

Currently, I have an awkward way of getting around this. I save a website's
URL to my general Favorites folder, and then go to "Organize Favorites", and
then drag the URL to the proper folder within Favorites. Even this is a
headache, because when I do this Vista stops me:

"Destination Folder Access Denied: You'll need to provider Administrator
Permission to move this folder"

I hit "Continue", then Windows Vista gives me another warning: "Windows
Needs Your Permission to Continue". Only then will it actually move the URL
to the right folder.

All this seems excessively frustrating. Any ideas on how I can get reset my
system so that it lets me do this without a hassle? There are two accounts
on my PC, my wife's and my own. My wife's one may be the admin account.



Robert