"You do not have the authority" - ???

[Tony Meloche]

I am the only user of my computer, since the day it came out of the box,
and Control Panel/User Accounts verifies that I am the
owner/administrator. (There are no other user accounts except the
disabled "Guest" which appears to be a Windows default to be used if
needed). But when I try to schedule Avast! to run automatically at a
given time, it requires a "password". When I put one it, it refuses it:
"You do not have administrative rights on this computer". I've tried
doing it both through Windows task scheduler and Avast's resident
scheduler - same result. This may look a lot like another thread here
today, but it hasn't been discussed specifically that I can see, and I
didn't want to hijack another thread. I tried the TweakUI logon thing,
but that blue-screened me (first time ever), and I undid it as soon as I
was back up. In any other similar situation I have had, the computer
always recognizes me as the Administrator. Solutions?

Many thanks,

Tony

 

[R. McCarty]

Does your Day-to-Day Administrator account use a password ? If
not then add one. Then do your scheduling with that account name
and password.

 

[FrankV]

Go to microsoft.com and search for "You do not have administrative rights
on this computer". It will list the reasons for this. You should find the
solution you need.

Frank

 

[Tony Meloche]

Go to microsoft.com and search for "You do not have administrative rights
on this computer". It will list the reasons for this. You should find the
solution you need.

Frank

Thanks, Frank - that did give me more info, but I cannot get past this
point:

To schedule the task, I must fill out the password box, which says
"Administrator" (me)/Tonys (the computer "name"). I put in a passsword
and re-type it, hit "enter" and I still get the message: You do not
have the right", etc.

Tony

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Thanks, Frank - that did give me more info, but I cannot get past this
point:

To schedule the task, I must fill out the password box, which says
"Administrator" (me)/Tonys (the computer "name"). I put in a passsword
and re-type it, hit "enter" and I still get the message: You do not have
the right", etc.

Does the *account* actually have that password? that is the key point.
In the scheduler, you enter the *account* password, which must not be blank.

If the account doesn't have a password and you enter one in the scheduler...
it won't work.

HTH
-pk

 

[Tony Meloche]

Does the *account* actually have that password? that is the key
point. In the scheduler, you enter the *account* password, which must
not be blank.

If the account doesn't have a password and you enter one in the
scheduler... it won't work.

HTH
-pk

As usual, you hit it in the nose Patrick - no, I have never used a
password - don't like dealing with one for the computer itself, as I am
the only person who ever uses this machine. Now I *understand* why it
didn't work, and I appreciate that.

TOny

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

As usual, you hit it in the nose Patrick - no, I have never used a
password - don't like dealing with one for the computer itself, as I
am the only person who ever uses this machine. Now I *understand*
why it didn't work, and I appreciate that.

You might also want to give kudos to McCarty who gave you the same
solution some 6 hours earlier.

 

[Gordon]

As usual, you hit it in the nose Patrick - no, I have never used a
password - don't like dealing with one for the computer itself, as I am
the only person who ever uses this machine.

You may be the only *user* of the machine, but are you the only one who
might have *access* to it? Do you have private data on the machine? If yes,
then you might want to re-visit the fact that you do not use passwords.

 

[Tony Meloche]

in message news:[email protected]...

You might also want to give kudos to McCarty who gave you the same
solution some 6 hours earlier.

????? No slight to McCarty intended, but I did not see that reply on my
server.

Tony

 

[Gordon]

????? No slight to McCarty intended, but I did not see that reply on my
server.

Then access these groups using the News server msnews.microsoft.com. It's
free, is ISP non-dependent, and requires no registration or log-in.