run as administrator

I upgraded to Vista about a month ago, installed Office 2007 and everything
worked pretty well until yesterday. I turned on the system and as it booted
there was a message about needing to checkdisk. Then for the next 5/10
mintues there was a message informing me that invalid security IDs had to be
replaced on files ...and the screen scrolled through thousands of files.
When I was finally able to log on to my account (which was the administrator
account from the time I upgraded) I found I had lost access to all of my
files (docs, music, etc.) and now needed to choose to run Outlook as an
administrator for it to work. (Prior to yesterday, all I needed to do was
click on the Outlook icon in my toolbar to open the program and retreive
mail.)

Anybody have an idea of what happened? How can I have the system recognize
my user account as the administrator? (It is a step backward to have to now
right click and select "run as administrator" to use Outlook 2007.)

Jan

Check the event logs for disk related errors. It sounds like a bad sector in
the wrong spot on the hard drive.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"JanZientek" <JanZientek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9B691088-744E-4412-B09C-80F8403B87D2@microsoft.com...
>I upgraded to Vista about a month ago, installed Office 2007 and everything
> worked pretty well until yesterday. I turned on the system and as it
> booted
> there was a message about needing to checkdisk. Then for the next 5/10
> mintues there was a message informing me that invalid security IDs had to
> be
> replaced on files ...and the screen scrolled through thousands of files.
> When I was finally able to log on to my account (which was the
> administrator
> account from the time I upgraded) I found I had lost access to all of my
> files (docs, music, etc.) and now needed to choose to run Outlook as an
> administrator for it to work. (Prior to yesterday, all I needed to do was
> click on the Outlook icon in my toolbar to open the program and retreive
> mail.)
>
> Anybody have an idea of what happened? How can I have the system
> recognize
> my user account as the administrator? (It is a step backward to have to
> now
> right click and select "run as administrator" to use Outlook 2007.)
>
> Jan