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Note: I believe this issue applies with setting UAC in windows 8 to "Never Notify." As a result, anytime a box would normally 'pop up,' asking to give a program temporary admin control, it never shows up and never gives that permission. I find that feature extremely annoying and counter-productive to quick, efficient computing and so I disable that immediately on all my personal windows installations (you may differ, so be it).
After upgrading from Win7 to Win 8.1 Preview, Almost every program that accesses data on my D:\ Drive (not the OS drive) has issues accessing data, and will only function normally when I run the program as administrator. This goes for anything from Steam, to notepad++, to my internet browsers when I attempt to save files. I never had this issue before, and I've been messing around with permissions with no luck (also tried unchecking "read only").
I've already disabled UAC and SmartScreen, and while my computer is much less antagonizing, it still hasn't fixed the problem.
I'm the only user on my computer, if that means anything, and thanks for any help. I've tried Googling and so far it's saying for me to set each program as "run as administrator" and I really don't think I need to go through that hassle when it worked before.
SOLUTION:
It turns out I had to do a large scale ownership change of my entire D: Drive (my storage drive, not the one with Windows on it). By default, it's owned by administrators, but I had to re-define the ownership to my user account. If you have more than one person using a computer, this might not work, however what I did was:
1) Right Click the Drive in question, select Properties.
2) Click the Security Tab, then Advanced.
3) Check the box "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable..." at the bottom of the Advanced Security Window.
4) Look for "Owner" at the top of the window, and look for where it says "Change." Click it.
5) Click Advanced at the bottom.
6) Click "Find Now" and scroll down the list that appears until you find your username. Select it, then click "OK," then OK again. If using Windows 8, it should be your name, then your windows account (an email address) unless you didn't connect to their online service during install or account creation.
At this point, it should now run through every file on the drive and change its ownership settings. There's a good chance some will report errors, but watch and make sure those errors don't list the User, Documents, Program Files, Games, or any other folder you wish to save to/modify/use in the future.
After upgrading from Win7 to Win 8.1 Preview, Almost every program that accesses data on my D:\ Drive (not the OS drive) has issues accessing data, and will only function normally when I run the program as administrator. This goes for anything from Steam, to notepad++, to my internet browsers when I attempt to save files. I never had this issue before, and I've been messing around with permissions with no luck (also tried unchecking "read only").
I've already disabled UAC and SmartScreen, and while my computer is much less antagonizing, it still hasn't fixed the problem.
I'm the only user on my computer, if that means anything, and thanks for any help. I've tried Googling and so far it's saying for me to set each program as "run as administrator" and I really don't think I need to go through that hassle when it worked before.
SOLUTION:
It turns out I had to do a large scale ownership change of my entire D: Drive (my storage drive, not the one with Windows on it). By default, it's owned by administrators, but I had to re-define the ownership to my user account. If you have more than one person using a computer, this might not work, however what I did was:
1) Right Click the Drive in question, select Properties.
2) Click the Security Tab, then Advanced.
3) Check the box "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable..." at the bottom of the Advanced Security Window.
4) Look for "Owner" at the top of the window, and look for where it says "Change." Click it.
5) Click Advanced at the bottom.
6) Click "Find Now" and scroll down the list that appears until you find your username. Select it, then click "OK," then OK again. If using Windows 8, it should be your name, then your windows account (an email address) unless you didn't connect to their online service during install or account creation.
At this point, it should now run through every file on the drive and change its ownership settings. There's a good chance some will report errors, but watch and make sure those errors don't list the User, Documents, Program Files, Games, or any other folder you wish to save to/modify/use in the future.
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