>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>I just purchase a new computer, and comes with windows 8 install. After installing VFP 9.0 I just discovered I do not have permission to add addition application to the installation folder (like Thor). How do I change to permission of the VFP folder?
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>>>If you're adding using an installer, you could right-click on installer and select "Run as administrator"
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>>>The other workaround would involve installing VFP in a different directory tree rather than the standard "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" (i.e. don't install in the default folder, and override the folder when installing).
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>>>There's also a way by changing the security in the "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86) folders -- thought I wouldn't recommend such a "fix" due to the risks.
>>>http://www.samlogic.net/blog/2013/08/how-to-give-a-standard-user-write-permission-to-a-folder-in-program-files/
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>>>Rather than mucking with access to "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)", perhaps you could change the permissions to the folder where VFP is installed and grant full access rights to all users?
>>>http://www.rajapet.com/2013/12/its-2013-stop-trying-to-write-to-the-program-files-folder-already.html
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>>Also, one thing that cost me a whole hour to solve. I'd have a folder and unzip a bunch of files in it, among them a template ini file. Trying to edit it, I couldn't save it, didn't have permission, it was read only. Dozen other things didn't work, I simply didn't have the rights.Looking up the folder properties, I saw that I am the owner, and that the owner has full rights... but that still failed to materialize. Googling out I found that there's still some ugly blot on the area - the readonly checkbox on the folder was checked but gray, just like our is when value is null, which is supposed to mean "perhaps there is a chance that some of the files in the folder could be readonly", very informative. Blanking that checkbox seemed to work, none of the files were marked readonly - but then they weren't so in the first place - and then looking at it again, it was checked and gray again.
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>>The solution was exactly the idiocy one has to apply when dealing with a bureaucracy: do the stupid thing that you think fits with their madness. I added specific full rights to myself, by name (ownership be damned) and it all started working smoothly.
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>>The idea came from a scene at a post office in Hungary, where a guy was supposed to pick a package for his one-man company. The clerk asked to see an authorization for him to pick the mail, signed by the CEO and stamped. "But I am the CEO". "I must see an authorization". After four rounds of such talk, the guy took a piece of paper, whereby he as the CEO authorizes himself as a person to pick the mail. And it all started working smoothly.
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>LOL I've had that in the occasional shops here that still ask for a signature on a bank card. I rarely remember to sign cards now as its all Chip and Pin. So when they as to check the signature on my card I have to slip away for a second, sign the card and come back.

I imagine you could sign it right in front of them and it would have been ok.