trouble saving eqhost file

[Manix25]

Nope my problem was the spell en and spell us files in wrong place.Iv been having a ton of fun,thanks again Techguy.

[novausc]

As restarded as the issue is, its actually easily mended. open explorer and navigate to notepad.exe (C:\windows\system32\) Hold SHIFT and then RIGHT-CLICK on notepad.exe, choose RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR and once it opens click file and open and then navigate to the eqhost.txt file. You should now be able to change it and save it. Vista runs as a limited administrator even when you are running as administrator. Its something they picked up from MAC.

[citsacras]

Originally Posted by novausc

As restarded as the issue is, its actually easily mended. open explorer and navigate to notepad.exe (C:\windows\system32\) Hold SHIFT and then RIGHT-CLICK on notepad.exe, choose RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR and once it opens click file and open and then navigate to the eqhost.txt file. You should now be able to change it and save it. Vista runs as a limited administrator even when you are running as administrator. Its something they picked up from MAC.

This is actually a pretty good idea, for most users. Microsoft takes a lot of flak for poor desktop security, and they are attempting to remedy that. (I'm still a Mac fanboy though!)

Windows Vista automatically enables a feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). The UAC forces users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they were regular users with no administrative privileges.

If you are a "power user", you can disable UAC by running regedit and navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System. Change the value of DWORD EnableLUA from 1 to 0 to disable UAC. 0=disabled, 1=enabled.

Vista can be a PITA, but it's pretty and has better 64 bit drivers than XP 64. 64 bits may not be needed for most desktop applications, but it allows the OS to address more than 3 gigabytes of RAM.