Missing permission

[Guest]

I am the only user of a PC with Vista Premium Home. I therefore did not
install any account except the administrator's, as I have no need of a
specific login.
Anyway I am often stopped buy a message " You do not have the permission to
.....", when I do normal administration work like deleting programs.
What can I do?

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,

although it is not recommended, you can take over permission of the Program
Files Folder.
To do so, right-click it, select Properties -> tab "Security" -> Edit -> tab
"Owner" -> Edit -> select your user name, check the checkbox ("... on all
subcontainers...") -> OK. If that doesn't help, right-click again ->
Properties -> tab "Security" -> Edit -> and add your user name, and make
sure all groups you belong to have all permissions.
Secondly, sometimes you have to start a program with administrative
permissions. Right-click it, and select "Run as administrator".

I hope this will help you.
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Guest]

I am in the same boat as you -- I followed the guidance on another post to
gain access to the Program folder and only got "access denied" to any attempt
to change permissions.

 

[Guest]

If you have User Account Control turned off, try turning this feature back
on. User Account Control is a feature designed by Microsoft to help keep your
system secure! If this feature is disable, then Windows Vista may not be able
to ask you for permission to do critical tasks, and therefore simply denies
you access. When I disabled it on my system, I had the same problems, and
couldn't do anything about it, until I turned it back on. Changing
permissions on folders had no effect at all. The only way I regained my
access was by turning User Account Control back on.

To enable User Account Control, Click on Start -> Control Panel -> User
Accounts -> Turn User accountr Control on or off -> make sure the box is
checked to use User Account Control to protect your computer, then click ok.
NOTE: you will have to restart your computer for these changes to take effect

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Jason. It seems to work. I will try this configuration for a while
- accepting the security-risk. But I will not be able to forget, as I get a
message from the procesline, that "Usercontrol is turned off".

 

[Lauren]

I am having the same problem and I have tried everything suggested on this
page, but nothing worked for me. I am the only user/administrator on my
computer, yet I cannot delete a program no matter what I try. I have enabled
and disabled the User Account Control, and I have tried taking over
permission of the Program Files folder, but I keep getting these messages
that say I need permission to continue. So I guess the question is how do I
gain permission to manage my own computer????