{"id":1481,"date":"2021-10-21T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&p=1481"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:33:38","slug":"solved-cant-delete-desktop-icons-without-admin-permission","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-2000\/cant-delete-desktop-icons-without-admin-permission\/66384.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Can’t Delete Desktop Icons Without Admin Permission"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m moving my Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit platform to a new computer. On the old machine, I almost never had to log on as administrator because I could perform any system-altering operation by entering the admin psswrd at the UAC prompt. At the same time, I had total control of the environment in my user account, being able to customize my desktop and start menu at will. I can’t remember what I did originally on the old machine to set all that up, but I’m having problems on the new one. I managed to enable customizing my start menu (creating new folders, etc.) by making sure that any instance of “start menu” I could find on the computer was shared, but while I can delete icons from my desktop that I created, I am unable to delete any that have been put there by program installations without a UAC prompt. Right-clicking the Public folder and choosing “share with” produces only the “advanced sharing settings” dialogue and editing those settings seems to do nothing at all. Also, I don’t see any relevant entries in Group Policy Editor. I need read\/write privileges for that folder! I’ve always appreciated the security provided by UAC, but this is not a security issue. Anybody have a solution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":46},"question-category":[66],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-2000"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}