permission needed message

English translation: Windows needs YOUR permission to continue

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English term or phrase:permission needed message
Selected answer:Windows needs YOUR permission to continue

05:19 Sep 16, 2009
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English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers: Software
English term or phrase: permission needed message
Click Continue if you get a permission needed message

How do you understand this ?
GILOU
France
Local time: 16:17
Windows needs YOUR permission to continue
Explanation:
As Jack says, it would have been a lot easier if they had put: Click Continue if you get a "Permission needed" message

Given the rest of the sentence I do not think it is about a message saying you don't have permission.

Instead I think it is a message asking for your permission. Vista asks you for permission to do things all the time, particularly when installing software or running certain utilities.

If your wider context is a software installation or a utility software package, the message being referred to is quite probably this one: Windows needs your permission to continue

Screenshot:
http://www.theworldofoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/v...

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Note added at 9 hrs (2009-09-16 14:32:36 GMT)
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I based my answer on the fact that it says to click the "Continue" button which is present on this type of dialog, as well as a bit of intuition and guesswork about the context.
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Simon Mac
Local time: 15:17
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +1Windows needs YOUR permission to continue
Simon Mac
3 +1"Would you like to continue?", then press "Continue" (i.e. OK). (Very hard to understand)
Yasutomo Kanazawa
4A message saying that you need a certain permission to do something
Egil Presttun
3 +1Vista often generates a You need permission to perform this action message
David Russi


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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
"Would you like to continue?", then press "Continue" (i.e. OK). (Very hard to understand)


Explanation:
Very difficult to understand, but below is my guess.

My guess is that if you get a message saying something like "Would you like to continue?", then press "Continue" (i.e. OK).

But like I wrote above, the phrase is very hard to understand, and the phrase could be simply written as "If you would like to continue, then press "Continue" or "OK", something like that.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 00:17
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Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 3

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rolf Keiser: I share this opinion
1 hr
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
A message saying that you need a certain permission to do something


Explanation:
It can be any kind of permission to do any kind of thing. For instance, you may need permission to delete files in order to proceed if you want to delete a file, you may need permission to access a certain web area, etc. The permission can be a so called "privilege" that only certain people have, like administrators, or it can be (if mostly unlikely) a non-technical permission, like "permission from your parents to enter this website".


Egil Presttun
Norway
Local time: 16:17
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Native speaker of: Norwegian
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Vista often generates a You need permission to perform this action message


Explanation:
This silly message appears when you try to delete a file that is open in an application, for example.

As I remember, your options are Try again and Cancel, but it may be that under some circumstances you get a Continue button.

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Note added at 32 mins (2009-09-16 05:51:52 GMT)
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Example of the message:

http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/you-need-permission-...

David Russi
United States
Local time: 09:17
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  quillworks (X): By default, Vista has a feature called User Account Control (UAC) that asks your permission to continue with an operation, like running an application or performing high-level diagnostics. Clicking "OK" exits the UAC dialog box and proceeds with the task.
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Windows needs YOUR permission to continue


Explanation:
As Jack says, it would have been a lot easier if they had put: Click Continue if you get a "Permission needed" message

Given the rest of the sentence I do not think it is about a message saying you don't have permission.

Instead I think it is a message asking for your permission. Vista asks you for permission to do things all the time, particularly when installing software or running certain utilities.

If your wider context is a software installation or a utility software package, the message being referred to is quite probably this one: Windows needs your permission to continue

Screenshot:
http://www.theworldofoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/v...

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Note added at 9 hrs (2009-09-16 14:32:36 GMT)
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I based my answer on the fact that it says to click the "Continue" button which is present on this type of dialog, as well as a bit of intuition and guesswork about the context.

Simon Mac
Local time: 15:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
merci

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ErichEko ⟹⭐
15 hrs
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