Administrator Permissions

[Guest]

Although I am logged on as an administrator I cannot get full control of
drive c:

 

[Guest]

Log in in safe mode as the administrator
Create a new user account (With admin priviliges)

This shold work OK

 

[Richard Hay]

Welcome to the world of UAC! That is User Account Control.

 

[Guest]

Are you refering to the warning thats says:

"You don't currently have permission to access this folder.

Click continue to get access to this folder."

On click:

"You have been denied permision to access this folder.

To gain access to this folder you will need to use the security tab."

And then, while in security tab you can't actually apply any chnages?

Or, are you refering to UAC, which can be turned off?

 

[Guest]

Hello

no dont think its the uac thing. When i go to alter the permissions on the
security tab its all greyed out and i cant alter any of the permissions.

I tried adding another user with admin rights but that made no difference.
Also couldnt add another user while in safe mode as suggested


Regards



Andrew

 

[Guest]

How do you turn off "UAC"? Is it in the local security policy?

 

[Guest]

not sure how to turn off uac looked in local security policy didnt seem to be
an option . the problem i have is that if i try and rename a file in anything
but the users folder. I get prompted to supply administrator credentials,
which i do and it initially seems to accept them. Then i get "There is
security controlling access to the file you do not have sufficient
credentials " and so on

 

[Guest]

Control Panel | User Accounts (in classic menu) | Change Security to turn off
UAC

But I have it turned off and am having similar issues in that i am an admin,
but am having security permissions issues.
BUT i just got vista and am working on it

 

[Doug]

Yes, there are a couple settings in Local Security Policy to turn off UAC.
Check the 2nd and 3rd items in the list under "User Account Control" and
change them to "No Prompt".

Doug

 

[Rita Bever]

When i go to alter the permissions on the security tab its all greyed

out and i cant alter any of the permissions.

Check the rights of user "everybody". In some folders this user has not
the right to list the content. Enable that "everybody" can list the
folder content - then also "administrator" can see the content.

 

[Guest]

Hello

I dont seem to have a user "everybody"

However I think i eventually managed to solve the problem by creating a new
user and giving them administrator privilidges. That user now seems to be
able to access everything I thought the original administrator who set the
machine up from scratch should have had !

 

[Guest]

Crud. I still seem to be having that problem.

I installed last night and some of the folders on my drive give me the
denied access message. Specifically the "Documents and Settings" folder and
a few of the other ones around the hard drive. I'm logged in as Domain
Administrator for my domain that the computer is a member of and it still
gives me no access.

I've tried Domain Admin, Local Admin, and creating a new account with
administrator access.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

[Guest]

When you fire up Explorer 'right-click' it and elect 'Run as Administrator' -
seems to be the workround for most of these issues in this area...

 

[Guest]

Is it fixed for you ?? If not i had the same problem as you I had a music
file on desktop and wanted to put it in my user-music folder but didnt had
admin powers so i went in start-all programs-accesories-run and typed
secpol.msc press ok. Went in Local policies-security options and at the
bottom of the page at user account control:Behavior of the elevation prompt
for standard users and put it to no prompt. Moved my folder without Vista
asking me to prove i had to Creds. Enjoy

 

[Guest]

Hello

I managed to fix it by creating a new user with administrator privelidges
and that seemed to solve the problem. It seems very bazzar that when you set
the system up as an administrator you dont actually get admin rights unless
you force it to do so.

regards

Andrew