Administrator doesn't have permission/rights to run tasks !?

[Donald L McDaniel]

Paul, when I go to Systems, I am not even listed as "administrator", even
though in the Control Panel I am listed as the administrator. Every since my
computer was repaired, someone named 'v' is the administrator, and there
seems to be
nothing I can do to change 'v' to my name. I even bought and ran the RegCure
program which made a scan of everything in my computer and found about one
million errors! So I am really perplexed! How can I get rid of Mr. 'v' as
the administrator of MY computer?

Here's something to think about:

First of all, make sure it IS "your computer".
Then, rather than RUNNING a good-quality Register Cleaner, actually
ACT on the results (I assume there is a way to either FIX or DELETE
thoses bad registry entries your tool showed you). I do advise you to
back these entries up before deleting or fixing them.

1) A normal User Account with "administrator permissions" in Vista is
NOT the same as "The Administrator" account in XP or earlier.

2) A user with "administrator" permissions in Vista is LIMITED (no
matter what they say). Such accounts do NOT have permission to add
or delete files from a System folder [by default]. You must give
yourself this permission. Even then, there are some files or folders
you will be UNABLE to obtain permissions for, such as Windows log
files, page files or hibernation files.

3) To obtain this permission, you MUST first upgrade your permissions
manually to give yourself "Special permissions" , then take control of
each such folder you wish to add or remove files from. I DON'T advise
giving yourself special permissions for ANY special Windows folder,
such as "Windows" itself, or any folder which is an alias to a real
one (such as "My Documents, My Computer, etc..) Additionally, you
will be UNABLE to delete any files or folders which are used
exclusively by the System.

4) Try opening up User Accounts (with UAC turned on) and deleting the
"V" account first. You will have to get the password from whoever
added the "V" account if you are unable to remove it.

5) If that is unsuccessful, you will have to enable the
"Administrator" account in Vista to be able to access it. Since this
account is disabled by default when Vista is first installed, you will
need to enable it. I don't know how to do this in Home Premium, since
it does not include the Global Policy Template Editor, which would
normally be used to enable it..


--
Donald L McDaniel

How can so many otherwise very intelligent people screw up
something so simple so badly? If you stick a computer
keyboard in front of most people, they'll suddenly drop
30 points off their IQs. Much like placing a "Pork Barrel"
bill in front of a politician: He'll forget all about
"cooperation" the minute he counts the zeroes before the
decimal point.