this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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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 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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)

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 9 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Sounds like an improvement to me.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

is this a windows thing or is your drive/filesystem broken?

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Windows has 2 Types of admin, admin and „system“

System is like root, admin is just userspace

And now guess which one Windows uses and which the user can only use

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 17 points 4 weeks ago

Windows thing.

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

"Error removing spoiler" some inception shit going in here