Win10 851a - Cannot hide folder in root dir

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2015-05-26, 09:34 UTC

I just installed Win10 Preview build 10074. The first thing i did was to disable UAC. There were two folders in the root dir, Efi and PerfLogs which i don't like to see, so i went to hide them. F9, F, C, checked Hidden then pressed OK. The window closed without any messages but the folder was not hidden. Pressing Alt+Enter and hiding it from the Folder Properties dialog asked me for Administrative confirmation then proceeded and made the folder hidden. Other folders further down the tree (i.e. in AppData) are hidden/unhidden without problems though.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2015-05-26, 15:42 UTC

Have you restarted Windows after disabling UAC? It seems that your TC was still with restricted rights...

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2015-05-26, 15:52 UTC

MVV wrote:Have you restarted Windows after disabling UAC?

Yes. It seems that even disabling UAC does not eliminate all administrator warnings in Windows. IIRC, i've seen similar behavior in Win2K12R2 server too.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2015-05-26, 20:07 UTC

Disabling UAC can't help when even administrators have no write access to object. But PerfLogs provides full permissions for administrators so it should work with disabled UAC.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2015-05-26, 20:14 UTC

MVV wrote:Disabling UAC can't help when even administrators have no write access to object. But PerfLogs provides full permissions for administrators so it should work with disabled UAC.

Yup, i know, that's why i reported it here. Administrators group has full permission in that folder and the account i used was in that group. Perhaps MS has changed something or perhaps (since it's not a final version) it's a Win-Bug. Maybe Christian must alter something in TC though, in order to make it compatible with Win10...

Sob · Post by *Sob » 2015-05-26, 23:14 UTC

Two things:

1) You didn't really disable UAC. If you did, it would work (I just tested it). The catch is that you can't do it in GUI. Since Windows 8, if you drag the slider all the way down, you only disable prompts, but UAC is still active. You can disable it completely by setting (and then restarting Windows):

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"EnableLUA"=dword:00000000

But you don't want to do it, because Modern/Metro apps don't work without UAC. And since even Windows Update is now (in Windows 10) only accessible as Metro app...

2) With UAC active, TC should not silently fail to change the attribute, that's a bug.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2015-05-27, 07:26 UTC

And since even Windows Update is now (in Windows 10) only accessible as Metro app...

Offtopic...
Dumb M$, stupid metro... It would be better if they returned normal eye-pleasing classic theme!

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2015-05-27, 08:04 UTC

Sob wrote:Two things:

1) You didn't really disable UAC. If you did, it would work (I just tested it). The catch is that you can't do it in GUI. Since Windows 8, if you drag the slider all the way down, you only disable prompts, but UAC is still active. You can disable it completely by setting (and then restarting Windows):
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"EnableLUA"=dword:00000000
But you don't want to do it, because Modern/Metro apps don't work without UAC. And since even Windows Update is now (in Windows 10) only accessible as Metro app...

Didn't know all that. Thanks for the valuable info.

Sob wrote:2) With UAC active, TC should not silently fail to change the attribute, that's a bug.

I agree. So, that's a confirmation that something fishy is going on...