New laptop with Vista

I just bought a new Dell laptop running Vista and it is not letting me save
anything to the c:drive. I've looked at all of the settings and can't figure
out why. Anyone else had this problem?

On Jun 25, 7:21*am, arkypaul <arkyp...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I just bought a new Dell laptop running Vista and it is not letting me save
> anything to the c:drive. I've looked at all of the settings and can't figure
> out why. Anyone else had this problem?

No, not me. My new Dell D630 works just fine.

On Jun 25, 7:36*am, TheOtherGuy <mea...@telus.net> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 7:21*am, arkypaul <arkyp...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I just bought a new Dell laptop running Vista and it is not letting me save
> > anything to the c:drive. I've looked at all of the settings and can't figure
> > out why. Anyone else had this problem?
>
> No, not me. My new Dell D630 works just fine.

Forgot to add, have you tried calling Dell tech support? Might be a
good place to start.

"arkypaul" <arkypaul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought a new Dell laptop running Vista and it is not letting me save
> anything to the c:drive.

So what happens when you try?

"arkypaul" <arkypaul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought a new Dell laptop running Vista and it is not letting me save
> anything to the c:drive. I've looked at all of the settings and can't
> figure
> out why. Anyone else had this problem?

Try saving to your user folder instead. You'd need to elevate the
application to write to the root of the disk, for anything other than
folders.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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arkypaul <arkypaul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I just bought a new Dell laptop running Vista and it is not letting me save
>anything to the c:drive. I've looked at all of the settings and can't figure
>out why. Anyone else had this problem?

More details, please. Exactly how are you trying to save something,
and exactly what happens when you try? What message are you seeing?

The more information you give us, the more likely it is that we can
figure something out.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
Slattery_T@bls.gov
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