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transcriptA meme using characters from SpongeBob. Man Ray holds a card labeled "My Computer" and says, "I'm an admin, right?" Patrick replies, "Yup." Man Ray continues, "And this file is admin locked." Patrick says, "Yup." Man Ray says, "I have admin access. And if that's the case, I can access this file." Patrick replies, "That makes sense to me." Man Ray says, "So let me access it." Patrick responds, "You need admin access."

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

On Windows this is when I become NT authority\SYSTEM...and then proceed to break something, like the time I did that and completely and utterly borked Microsoft Store and everything connected to it (like calculator)

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Sounds like an improvement to me.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago

Theres a github script that fixes everything back to normal now, so its safer to change permissions now.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

If I remember correctly, it's better to root yourself by setting your user to own system

But I haven't had to mess with this since window s 7

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago

I remember using a managed laptop somewhere which had all those UWP apps broken. I guess something similar happened on that.