@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 2 years agoEvery time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or twolocklemmy.oneimagemessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up1349
arrow-up1349imageEvery time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or twolocklemmy.one@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square132fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•2 years agoCertainly not without using sudo right? It’s the same in the windows land, the UAC dialog is windows’ equivalent of sudo.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agocorrect, but why wasnt i given a UAC prompt here? it just says Try again and Cancel
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•2 years agoProbably due to some sort of idiot-proof protection to prevent people from deleting their windows folder from explorer. Try running a CMD shell as administrator and delete it from the command line instead.
Certainly not without using sudo right? It’s the same in the windows land, the UAC dialog is windows’ equivalent of sudo.
correct, but why wasnt i given a UAC prompt here? it just says Try again and Cancel
Probably due to some sort of idiot-proof protection to prevent people from deleting their windows folder from explorer. Try running a CMD shell as administrator and delete it from the command line instead.