08-04-2010, 03:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2010, 03:56 PM by nosisab Ken Keleh.)
I'm sorry looking like a Don Quixote fighting against the mill, still I may be indeed. Actually I install most things there too... just not games, not even PC games and certainly not PC games that allow modding. Of course not all games will misbehave there but many will, in the end it's a personal choice and personal headache.
Just search game forums in general and those dedicated to modding in special... the gross amount of threads related to permission issues can be tracked down to a common cause. There is no point in repeating and telling all the reasons behind the issue, it's not even directly related to the user access rights most of times; it's an application access rights, reason running as The Administrator can workaround some issues, it's not enough the user account being the administrative type ever... but it just masks the issue and setup the bomb for afterward trigger, let alone the mess with actual folders setup and killing the very purpose of those "special protections".
Again, it's your choice, but we should help users, spread what we learn, not help to create immediate or future issues for him or perpetuate the causes.
PS: Although I see no point trying and getting credibility by boasting titles instead trying and posting solid information backed on arguments, sometimes the first can help and sometimes needed to counter the same posture. I'm indeed a system support and administration, system analyst guy (although retired now), with some decades of actual work in government oligarchy with thousands of employees, hundred of PC based terminals under multiserver setup and mainframe centralized. Backed with some IBM among others corporations certifies, ranging from system and database protection, from SAM/ISAM/VSAM to SQL, system and local policies... and so on.
I don't know what weight it may have, most things I learned are past now, still they are fundamentals, the base the new is constructed, many new things are of interest yet and I try to keep informed though.
Albeit nobody is impervious to err and surely I'm not, I try and avoid posting about something I don't know for sure and I make it clear when whatever being said is just a personal opinion or speculation.
Just search game forums in general and those dedicated to modding in special... the gross amount of threads related to permission issues can be tracked down to a common cause. There is no point in repeating and telling all the reasons behind the issue, it's not even directly related to the user access rights most of times; it's an application access rights, reason running as The Administrator can workaround some issues, it's not enough the user account being the administrative type ever... but it just masks the issue and setup the bomb for afterward trigger, let alone the mess with actual folders setup and killing the very purpose of those "special protections".
Again, it's your choice, but we should help users, spread what we learn, not help to create immediate or future issues for him or perpetuate the causes.
PS: Although I see no point trying and getting credibility by boasting titles instead trying and posting solid information backed on arguments, sometimes the first can help and sometimes needed to counter the same posture. I'm indeed a system support and administration, system analyst guy (although retired now), with some decades of actual work in government oligarchy with thousands of employees, hundred of PC based terminals under multiserver setup and mainframe centralized. Backed with some IBM among others corporations certifies, ranging from system and database protection, from SAM/ISAM/VSAM to SQL, system and local policies... and so on.
I don't know what weight it may have, most things I learned are past now, still they are fundamentals, the base the new is constructed, many new things are of interest yet and I try to keep informed though.
Albeit nobody is impervious to err and surely I'm not, I try and avoid posting about something I don't know for sure and I make it clear when whatever being said is just a personal opinion or speculation.
Imagination is where we are truly real
