Thanks. I'll have to do that. No, no old XP drive. This is a brand
new Lenovo laptop with Win7 factory installed. I've installed quite a
few apps so far with no problem. Only FastStone is giving me trouble.
I can't even do it as the admin. It won't write a single file. I don't
have time to chase it down at the moment.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/30/2014 2:09 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>> I tried to install FastStone on it today but it would not install for
>> some reason. I suspect an odd permissions problem since install
>> couldn't write any file but need to check into that.
>> Nope, not a permissions problem. I'm temporarily mystified. Win7...
>
> I suspect that it is indeed a permissions problem since you mentioned Win7.
> Is your hard drive pulled from an XP box? With Win 7 Nanny Microsoft decided
> it knew what's best for you. I found this out the painful way. Luckily I had
> a full retail version of Win 7 so spent some quality learning time on the
> phone with tech support.
>
> Too much to address in a post. I suggest some reading. Start here.
>
> <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-are-permissions#1TC=windows-7>
>
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