Hi, i have parallels desktop 8 with windows 8 home. I have a trouble when i try do copy files into the program files folder, or when i try to delete some folders into the desktop.. always a pop-up tells me that is necessary the authorization and i have to confirm. With my old PCs I resolved this removing the "user account control". Here this didn't resolve the problem. I tried to modify the owner of all the C disk in the security tab from "administrators" to "andrea" that is my profile, and then the notifications are gone, but this has broken my windows 8, and all the apps stopped to work, so i reinstalled windows... Any suggestion?
My suggestion is that instead of trying to override security features built into Windows you find a way to do your tasks and work that respects the permission structure of Windows, there are reasons why these folders are locked to users, and it is not to make your life harder, it's protecting your Programs folder from being altered by malware. For your own files and apps use the My Documents folder.
Maybe you should stick to Windows 95 then. Really, you don't know what you are doing and what's under the hood, and why it works that way, computing as evolved, the computing model of Win95 is irresponsible nowadays, that DOS like security was ultimately what was wrong with it. Anyway I'm not here to have philoshophical discussions about computer security, anyone that knows something about this subject will give you the same advice I gave, Windows 8 wasn't made to be used like you intend, it will result in unexpected behaviour, if you don't care about security then you should probably use an older version of Windows that permits that sort of behaviour, I suggest Windows XP. Have a good day!
