no administerative privaleges?

[Guest]

Hi, I have a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with XPSP2, all current updates, no
dodgey software, no viruses. I have always had a problem when I change the
MSCONFIG startup items. I change them and it says i need to log on with
administerative privaleges for the settings to be changed! even though the
changes DO take affect and it seems to be not a problem its starting to get
on my....s . does anyone know whats wrong with it? the only account on the
computer is mine which is an administrator. thank you.

 

[Malke]

Hi, I have a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with XPSP2, all current updates, no
dodgey software, no viruses. I have always had a problem when I change the
MSCONFIG startup items. I change them and it says i need to log on with
administerative privaleges for the settings to be changed! even though the
changes DO take affect and it seems to be not a problem its starting to get
on my....s . does anyone know whats wrong with it? the only account on the
computer is mine which is an administrator. thank you.

Got an HP printer? I've seen this numerous times when HP printers are
installed. I usually treat this as a non-issue since it would be far
more aggravating to deal with HP and their notoriously awful printer
software than it is to just ignore the prompt. After all, the changes do
get made.


Malke

 

[Guest]

hi malke, yes i have an hp and just uninstalled it to try it out and your
right! thanks for that, at least i know what it is now! these newsgroups are
cool!!! so much better than asking the manufacturer! I asked dell the other
day, they remotely connected, couldnt find a problem and asked me to back
stuff up and do a clean install !!!!! ( which i didnt ) cheers malke u are
top!

 

[Malke]

hi malke, yes i have an hp and just uninstalled it to try it out and your
right! thanks for that, at least i know what it is now! these newsgroups are
cool!!! so much better than asking the manufacturer! I asked dell the other
day, they remotely connected, couldnt find a problem and asked me to back
stuff up and do a clean install !!!!! ( which i didnt ) cheers malke u are
top!

Glad that sorted it for you. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.


Malke

 

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Hi, I have a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with XPSP2, all current
updates, no dodgey software, no viruses. I have always had a
problem when I change the MSCONFIG startup items. I change
them and it says i need to log on with administerative
privaleges for the settings to be changed! even though the
changes DO take affect and it seems to be not a problem its
starting to get on my....s . does anyone know whats wrong with
it? the only account on the computer is mine which is an
administrator. thank you.

First and foremost, why are you changing MSCONFIG start-up
options so often? Once set correctly, on a good running, stable,
and efficient system shouldn't need constant tweaking. About the
only time I do it, and the adjacent list of running services, is
when I have some sort of problem and I want to run in normal
rather than safe mode to debug it and I want to take out all the
background tasks from starting up so they don't muddle the issue.

Now, to your specific question, I will assume that you have the
Administrator account called "Administrator" passworded. If not,
do it immediately so that no one - not even you - can gain
control of the system inadvertantly. And, I will assume that you
have at least one other account that has full administrator (with
a small "a") privileges that you use for every day use. If not,
why not? I'm not accusing you of anything, you just didn't
provide enough information.

When properly configured, a user account with admin permissions
should be able to run ANY application or systems software
utility, including MSCONFIG without any complaints about admin
permissions. Ditto for installing new software or updates that
clearly require this.

I'm quite interested in why you use MSCONFIG so much primarily
because I like to learn new things and look up occasionally by
challenging my older views.

 

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Got an HP printer? I've seen this numerous times when HP
printers are installed. I usually treat this as a non-issue
since it would be far more aggravating to deal with HP and
their notoriously awful printer software than it is to just
ignore the prompt. After all, the changes do get made.

I was a solid HP customer for well over a decade but eventually
reached the same conclusion you did, plus I got damn well tire of
water-soluable ink. Even their so-called permanent ink is far too
water-soluable for me.

 

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hi malke, yes i have an hp and just uninstalled it to try it
out and your right! thanks for that, at least i know what it
is now! these newsgroups are cool!!! so much better than
asking the manufacturer! I asked dell the other day, they
remotely connected, couldnt find a problem and asked me to
back stuff up and do a clean install !!!!! ( which i didnt )
cheers malke u are top!

Manufacturer tech support isn't, meaning their goal is to get you
off the phone as quickly as possible so they can "help" someone
else. So, more often than not, they'll tell you to run their
config CD to repair your system. What they almost never tell you,
though, is that it will destroy everything on your C:\ partition
and may even take out any extended partition(s) you may have
created. They do this because it is the fastest way to fix
neophyte problems.

As to HP, I would've asked them, not Dell, first for exactly the
reason you state - Dell cannot detect an HP problem by remotely
taking control of your PC. What I'm sure they did was simply
check THEIR implementation of Windows.

I have on occasion, when I still had newer HP printers, either
used on-line or phone tech support and found it reasonable. Not
great, but then, I don't think all that much of most tech support
staffs. It isn't that I'm bashing any companies, it is that these
people are trained on a specific set of issues and they have
either a book or a KB that they're searching as they talk to you.
Which is why they ask you to do such idiotic things, that's what
their KB said to try first. So, one has to start polite, get a
little assertive and get increasingly assertive if you find
you're talking to some twit who has no real technical knowledge
and has no clue what you're asking about.

Plus, many/most SW and HW houses now off-shore their tech support
to places like India and the Phillipines, to name just two, where
the techs speak English but not American and certainly NOT
technical. Long way around a short notion: it helps if one knows
themselves what is basically going on before they call for tech
support from anyone, and resist doing anything at all dangerous
to your system, no matter what silliness they may engage in.

 

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Glad that sorted it for you. Thanks for taking the time to let
me know.

This is one I'd never have thought of!

 

[Guest]

I just ran into the same problem with my admin account. Sometimes you DO need
to use MSconfig and when you DO (for whatever reason) and the computer
doesn't let you - THAT is a huge pain in you-know-where. There are a lot of
things that should run smoothly, but they usually DO NOT. Hope that this
"computer administrator" problem does not happen to you.