I like xp and have hung onto it for as long as I could, but my machine is on life support now, so I gotta make the switch (which I'm looking forward to in the having more than 4gb RAM department), but I'm fucking dreading the issue where you can't edit/resave eg txt files on an external drive that were saved running xp, in win7.
post #10 of this thread about the issue looks like a solution, what I'm after knowing is if it's some kind of global setting that allows me to open everything as administrator, rather than 'run as' administrator:
http://www.sevenforums.com/system-se...-txt-file.html
I fucking suck at anything even remotely tech-related, and fully expect to get caned for being such a thick cunt lol, but the issue was so bad when I upgraded my xp machine to win7 that I had to revert back after 2 or 3 days of googling.
It's crucial that I'm able to edit and save files on my external drive, and when I specifically asked the tech guys at the place where I'll likely get my new machine, I got this in response:
There has to be some fix/workaround that doesn't require me going into various menus/submenus each time I want to edit/resave files as I go, but I'm loathe to buy a win7 machine if I don't know for certain that there is, and what it is.
Sincere thanks in advance
