Administrator Privilege to Flash Drives

[Larry D Gibbs]

I am using Vista Home Premium and want to flash a DVD player but every time
I try I get the error message "Access denied! You must have administrator
privilege to flash drives. I ran the program as administrator and I am the
only user account on the computer and am set as the administrator. What can
I do to flash my drives?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I am using Vista Home Premium and want to flash a DVD player but every time
I try I get the error message "Access denied! You must have administrator
privilege to flash drives. I ran the program as administrator and I am the
only user account on the computer and am set as the administrator. What can
I do to flash my drives?

http://vistasupport.mvps.org/run_as_administrator.htm

If you're running an exe directly, then you right-click in Explore and RAA
there too.

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problems - have you had a response?
Thanks,

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I am using Vista Home Premium and want to flash a DVD player but every
time I try I get the error message "Access denied! You must have
administrator privilege to flash drives. I ran the program as
administrator and I am the only user account on the computer and am set
as the administrator. What can I do to flash my drives?

Have you contacted the maker of the DVD player to find out if they have
a version of their firmware flashing utility that is fully
Vista-compatibile, or if they have a work-around to enable the current
utility to work?

Also, have you tried logging in using the built-in Administrator
account (not any other administrative account)? In theory, it should
make no difference. But I've found this not to always be the case, in
practice. I've encountered a very small sampling of installation
routines that had actually been written so that they would work *only*
when run from the built-in Administrator account, and then only if the
account hadn't been renamed, as is a common security practice.

I could not install these applications using a domain
administrative account, nor using the renamed built-in administrator
account. I actually had to disconnect the machine from the domain (as a
security precaution) and rename the built-in administrator account to
"Administrator" before the installation routine would work. Stupidest
thing I've ever encountered; but some developers simply have no concept
of multiple user accounts and/or proper security.

Of course, this condition is a limitation of those specific, poorly
written applications, not the operating system. When installation
routines are properly written, there is no functional difference between
the built-in Administrator account and any other accounts that are
members of the local Administrators group.


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Bruce Chambers

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