stappern@lemmy.one to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoEvery time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or twolocklemmy.oneimagemessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down1207
arrow-up1137arrow-down1imageEvery time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or twolocklemmy.onestappern@lemmy.one to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square156fedilink
minus-squareredcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoCertainly not without using sudo right? It’s the same in the windows land, the UAC dialog is windows’ equivalent of sudo.
minus-squarestappern@lemmy.oneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down13·1 year agocorrect, but why wasnt i given a UAC prompt here? it just says Try again and Cancel
minus-squareredcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoProbably due to some sort of idiot-proof protection to prevent people from deleting their windows folder from explorer. Try running a CMD shell as administrator and delete it from the command line instead.
Certainly not without using sudo right? It’s the same in the windows land, the UAC dialog is windows’ equivalent of sudo.
correct, but why wasnt i given a UAC prompt here? it just says Try again and Cancel
Probably due to some sort of idiot-proof protection to prevent people from deleting their windows folder from explorer. Try running a CMD shell as administrator and delete it from the command line instead.