kahlil88

New user account sort of fixed the problem. Most files could be moved, renamed, etc without issue but several were still giving me UAC prompts. Ended up doing a clean install and no more errors, but with my luck I'll probably encounter the issue again down the road :P

Someone brought me a Win 8 system that gives a UAC prompt when moving files within the user directory, say from Pictures to a subfolder or the Desktop. It would seem ownership/permissions have been screwed up. I ran the Tweaking.com repair tool to reset permissions (only option was the entirety of C:\ so it took forever) and it seemed to fix the problem temporarily, but must have un-fixed after a reboot. Malware scans are coming up clean, starting to suspect the user account has been corrupted but need a second opinion.

Couldn't find a way to contact him on GitHub but I sent him a private message on Voat.

I've had great luck with the aegis tool mentioned in the original post. No longer being maintained due to some beef the creator has with Voat, which is a strange place for it. Perhaps someone wants to invite him over to this thread?

Is there a command or tool for blacklisting updates without waiting literally HOURS for Windows Update to just give the list of what's available and manually hiding them?

Just did a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP3 on an older HP laptop...it's got at least a 2GHz P4 and less than 512MB of RAM (will have to post back with the exact amount). Nevertheless, I was able to reduce memory usage by disabling non-critical services, and it runs great until the svchost process suddenly overloads the CPU and I have to terminate it in task manager. I understand svchost is a service host process, which leads me to wonder if tweaking the services is what created the problem in the first place. It's weird though, because I've done it on a dozen machines with great results and never once had this problem. Is there a way to see which particular service is causing this CPU overload, or a fix that I'm unaware of?