MS Windows is fucking weird.

I've got two accounts; an admin account with full access and a standard "user" account for emails/chats/wev/etc. The user account does not have access to USB storage but the admin account does.

Today I discovered that I cannot copy files to, delete files from, or format USB media UNLESS I am logged onto my user account on the same machine at the same time; If I'm just logged on as admin I get permission errors.

How the fuck does that work???

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@renbymon Not knowing anything else, and having not touched Windows permissions since 7, that sounds to me like a Group Policy setting assumption meeting a messed up ACL at either the device or user account level, or vice versa.

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