Win 10 Administrator permissions

[Masque]

Tried to unzip the new DLSS 2.5.1 file into D:/Rockstar Games/Red Dead 2 folder as its own folder (called DLSS 2.5.1) for archive purposes and Windows doesn't let me do it.

I can unzip the file onto the desktop and drag it into the Red Dead 2 folder no problem, as it gives me a dialog that tells me I need Administrator privileges but offers me a Continue button.

Why do I not have Administrator privileges, but only sometimes, and how can I change this?

[plat]

If you right-mouse click on the file, is the option to Run as Administrator there?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Use 7zip or WinRAR

[Masque]

I was using 7zip.

When I try to copy the file from the RD2 folder to the newly-created backup folder, I get the dialog with the Continue button:

https://i.imgur.com/Ibauy1q.png

When I try to download that file TO that folder -- no permission at all:

https://i.imgur.com/Pd4vsP2.png

When I try to unzip (with 7zip) from the desktop to that folder -- no permission at all:

https://i.imgur.com/DERXV30.png

It's not really a huge deal, but still a bit of an annoyance, my Windows thinking I'm not set up as the Admin (yet to do the same thing but in a different way -- giving me the option to click "yeah, that's me").

[[N]ebsun]

Because the program that is running the "Save As" dialog does not have administrator permissions, since it was started without them - and whoever designed that program made it so that when you don't have admin permission, it will display that dialog. Same thing for 7zip - if you start 7zip or that browser as administrator mode, then it would allow it.

When you use drag and drop, that's native (windows explorer) so windows can handle it with a prompt for elevation to administrator for that particular instance.

When you use windows, it runs your profile as a normal user - even though you have administrator permissions, so you need to explicitly use them instead of admin being active all the time - which helps to prevent some malicious activity.

Originally posted by Masque:

my Windows thinking I'm not set up as the Admin

It does recognise you as admin - which is why it prompts to continue, but those other apps do not have that functionality built into their design. One program that I know of does it notepad++ which will prompt to restart into admin mode if you try save a file that requires admin.

As to why administrator is required - that's how the game developer must have set it up.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Try going to the root .EXE for 7zip and set Properties to Run As Admin under All Users.

[emoticorpse]

Try going to C:\Users\ YOUR NAME HERE \AppData\Local\Temp and giving yourself full control of that folder. I had to do something like that a little while back.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

That might be it too. As that is going to be where such apps extract the files to before copying/moving them to the actual desired location.

Usually I don't see that folder being an issue unless maybe the user performed an OS upgrade and some things got messed up. Like going from Win 7/8 to 10 or going from 10 to 11

[emoticorpse]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

That might be it too. As that is going to be where such apps extract the files to before copying/moving them to the actual desired location.

Usually I don't see that folder being an issue unless maybe the user performed an OS upgrade and some things got messed up. Like going from Win 7/8 to 10 or going from 10 to 11

That happened to me. Everything worked like it was supposed to and then bang all of a sudden I got that zip/rar extraction error out of nowhere and had to fix it with (I think it was that directory). I don't even know at what point it started or what caused it. Probably some Windows update, but I'm guessing.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Try uninstall the app such as 7ZIP and then when go to reinstall it, right click the installer/setup file and click Run As Admin

[Masque]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Try going to the root .EXE for 7zip and set Properties to Run As Admin under All Users.

Did the same for 7z.exe, 7zG.exe (7z GUI) and 7zM.exe (7z File Manager).

Unzipping the file while it's in the folder (at Red Dead 2 root/DLSS 2.5.1) doesn't work and I get an error message saying tha 7zG.exe requires "escalation". Which is impossible because that file is already set for "run as administrator".

https://i.imgur.com/JyIxCi1.png

https://i.imgur.com/pPflW1Y.png

Very strange.

Did that for my browser (Brave) and I can now download into that directory without an error.

Thanks for the tip!

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

Try going to C:\Users\ YOUR NAME HERE \AppData\Local\Temp and giving yourself full control of that folder. I had to do something like that a little while back.

That directory doesn't exist on my drive. Inside c:\users\myname there is no directory named appdata. This is all that exists inside that c:users\myname:

https://i.imgur.com/BMWUOXb.png

[Bad 💀 Motha]

AppData is hidden
Press WINKEY+R
Type %appdata%
And click OK
Look at the full address in address bar

[Masque]

Thanks Bad -- found it. No idea how to do as emoticorpse suggests. I am already listed as the one who has access.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You probably have UAC enabled, just disable tbat.

[Masque]

Have it set to "never notify -- not recommended" already. Just double-checked.

Still 7zG needs elevation.

Meh, no big deal though. Thanks for the tip anyway. At least it worked for letting me download into the folder.

LOL another workaround (which still makes me click the administrator "continue" button) -- open the zip file with 7zip. Right-click the compressed file within the zip, selectt "extract to", "browse", select the Red Dead 2/DLSS 2.5.1 folder -- and it lets me do it, after hitting "continue" of course.

SMDH. Muh technological progress!

Can't wait for the end of Win 10 and then Win 11 may or may not let us do anything at all without a retina and brain scan.

[Masque]

It may have to do with this being the Rockstar Games launcher version of RDR2.

I found this: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-dlss-2-5-1/

"However, there are exceptions: games with Easy Anti-Cheat protection, Battlefield 2042 for example, are not allowed to change game files, therefore you can't manually update the DLSS version in these games; the Rockstar Games Launcher version of Red Dead Redemption 2 is also not allowed to change game files due to a verification process before launching the game, but the Steam version of the game does not have this issue."