POOF

Wish 1: Delete your self (the genie deletes your sense of self)

Glad to see another voice of sanity regarding Windows.

If you haven't learned by now, on Lemmy the only valid option for dealing with Windows configuration and basic Windows admin tasks is to yeet Windows and go to Linux.

In the basic case you go to settings and change permissions.

In the more typical case for os modifications, you go to that tab, open advanced properties, change the owner account by typing in "everyone" or your account name by hand, saving, closing reopening the advanced security settings, probably disable inheritance then create a new permission entry.

In the most extreme case, where you change files belonging to something critical like windows defender or edge, you can't.
The only way I am aware of is booting into an older windows install iso, or a live linux iso, then performing the modifications there.

Disclaimer: I have not done this on windows 11 yet, but I can't imagine the process got simplified.

Windows has a lot of systems that allow some more complicated modifications. Those are often unnecessarily obfuscated, the registry for example doesn't have to be a weird custom database, it could have been part of the filesystem or at least a more standard database format. Windows will sometimes bite you with weird sketchy systems breaking expectations, and this tends to become inevitable when you try to change stuff Microsoft has decided to remove consumer choice on.
If Edge and the account push were as easy to avoid as learning how to take basic file ownership, we might not be where we are now (i.e. on Linux).

 sudo chown -R <user> /

Never have a permission issue again! Lmao

Not necessarily. Linux can have files that are r---r---r--- too

Me, realizing I can't delete Edge because the OS assumes it's installed

Some do. I'm sure it is possible with terminal programs. In KDE, you do get authenticator pop-ups.

Iirc there are ways to format your command to get it to do this. So whatever app you're using just chose to format its command the simpler way.

Just because you have admin rights doesn't mean the process you've invoked does. Unless you specifically elevate it or the process asks to elevate, it'll run unprivileged.

You needed permission from the SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller account.

Which you can give to yourself if you are admin.

Just to have linux be even more ruthless with its permission schemes.

Pretty sure you can do that for home as well, just as long as you aren't in S mode.

Otherwise, admin console and clear the file permissions.

All that being said, for your average user, if you are trying to delete a file and windows says you don't have permission, it's probably best to leave it alone.