I can't save a file. Why?

I am trying to change a file and then save it but my computer won't let me save it. What do I need to do to save a file?

 

More details:

I open the custom planets file, using wordpad, and change the value of my home planet from 10 to 15. I then hit the save button and get the message "access denied". Next I try to do this using notepad and have no sucess overwriting the existing file.

I have Windows Vista on my computer.

 

BTW. I have the same problem modding a Paradox game called Victoria even though I could save modified files on my previous computer using Windows Home XP. Perhaps this is a problem relating to Windows Vista?

Any help apprcited.

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Reply #1 Top
Try to run it as Administrator, or try lower Vista's stupid UAC settings.
Reply #2 Top
Why MS didn't even consider *training* their own User_Control option is beyond my stiffy intelligence! :(

A good idea, but sooooo badly executed it waves off more than 80% of regular home users from Vista; who'd bother with such technicalities in a normal enviro?

Even so, when Administrative rights are involved there is a risk of looping an OS installation to hell by accident. Unless someone has proper knowledge, they end up hating their own PCS and how they operate or should. User friendly is no longer a concept, it's a fact. Demonstrating daily that Vista has gone mad by systematic paranoia over security 'items'.

Try going to a dual-boot (French/English, in my case) structure and you'll end-up with continual pop-ups with the glory silly *Access Denied* red-x all over the place for every last multiple links to multiple chaos calls. Besides, why should i need an *authorization* to transfer a folder from the Start-Folder of my choice to another? Oh, okay -- broken links, right? Broken OS, i say.
I've been trying to put order in a chaos for years and it just got worst; PROGRAMS -- that's where we install and shut up. Duh, find folder #642 that you install 6 months ago -- it is on page 5, click the arrow again, please.
XP allowed me to move things around by simple drag&drop - no denial - no bugs.

Yeah, way to go MS... nobody can truly control their usual computers anymore - i feel they may have bit the apple too much and ate it as a whole.

Sadly - there's no other solution than hoping MS fixes those annoying issues with 'updates_updates_KBs' file who would eventually grab gigas off an already useless group of files on MY fast NTFS drive. Who can detect an evergrowing SYSTEM_VOLUME_INFORMATION folders unless it is actually made visible for at least sizes and what files are truly necessary?

Clean it up? Yep, ----most---- of us know about this.

Barely a week had passed and i already got 375MBS worth of error reportings files pending; but, that has more to do how the store technician installed the Vista_OS on my precious 'puter. It's daunting just to guess what else was borked up and if the OEM partition is even flawed. 1150$ Pouf - here's comes trouble boy. Thanks MS, for the silly ride.

(PS; have you considered making your stuff NET 3.0 compatible instead of 3.5... cuz i couldn't load up the 'Modules_Editor' into my very recent system - unstable maybe and yet)