• ssillyssadass
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    2211 days ago

    One time Windows told me I needed admin privileges to edit s file. I had admin privileges.

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      1211 days ago

      You needed permission from the SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller account.

      Which you can give to yourself if you are admin.

      • @Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        Last time I did that it didn’t work so I figured I will restart and it will recognize then. Windows got a 30 minute update.

        When I logged back in my account was gone and still asked for a password. My old password didn’t work.

        Recovery option also fucked my grub. (Probably just the EFI now that I think about it.)

        • naticus
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          711 days ago

          That last bit about GRUB is why I never put Windows on the same drive as my Arch, btw install. If they both have their own EFI partitions, Windows doesn’t mess with Linux.

    • Just because you have admin rights doesn’t mean the process you’ve invoked does. Unless you specifically elevate it or the process asks to elevate, it’ll run unprivileged.