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Every time I want to change permissions through explorer I get an access denied error, and I'm using an administrator account.

What I need is to add an script to the /bin directory, but I'm not allowed to write there...

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If you are really a member of group Administrators, then Explorer should offer to elevate when you try to change the permissions (i.e., you should see UAC shield icons on the buttons you have to click in the properties dialog). Are you sure you're a member of group Administrators? – Fran 2 days ago
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You should not be adding personal scripts to /bin or /usr/bin

Those should go in ~/bin

$ touch blah.sh

$ mkdir ~/bin

$ mv blah.sh ~/bin

$ echo 'PATH+=:~/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile
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