>This may not be the best place to ask a Windows question but I bet someone knows. I recently updated from Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate and am having a hard time updating one particular file. As I have done for years, I have a C:\Data folder which contains various subfolders containing data from Quicken, TurboTax, etc. It also contains a file named pswd.txt which I cannot seem to update. It is the only file at the root level of C:\Data. Even when I move it to a subfolder I get an "Access is Denied" error. Other files under C:\Data are updated with no problem.
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>What do I need to do? Can I just turn off UAC like in Vista?
I would turn off UAC in any case.
But for the individual file, just right click it and go to properties/security. There you should be able to create read/write permissions for that file.
I had to do this with a lot of Microfour exes when I moved to 7 so things like the BO Mapper could be run as administrator. (come to think of it, if notepad is the default association for txt files, if you set notepad.exe ( in window32 I think) to run as admin that might do it too.)
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