User Accounts - Administrator

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David Crisp

I have just one User Account and Vista tells me it is caleed Administrator.

However when I try to manage the sytem, I get an awful lot or error messages
saying that I do not have Administrator priviledges to carry out the action
I want to!

Is there a way I can get full and total access over my syste, rather than
VISTA deciding what I can and cannot do.

All help and advice is welcomed.

Thanks in advance
 
No, you can't have full access to the system, you can alter the system to be
less tense when it comes to security messages. For instance, you can turn of
UAC by going to User Accounts applet in Control Panel. To access the system
with full Admin priviledges, you have to restart your system in Safe Mode
and log in to the Administrator account.
 
But even whem I am logged in as the administrator, it keeps asking questions
and not allwing me to do what I want to do.

For example, when logged in as administrator, it asks me for permission
EVERY time I open Intrernet Explorer. That is very frustrating....
 
Andre Da Costa said:
No, you can't have full access to the system, you can alter the system to
be less tense when it comes to security messages. For instance, you can
turn of UAC by going to User Accounts applet in Control Panel. To access
the system with full Admin priviledges, you have to restart your system in
Safe Mode and log in to the Administrator account.
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It appears ownership can be obtained by :

Go to command prompt and type takeown /F C:*.*

Worked for me.
 
Andre

Will you need to right click on the Command Prompt and select "Run
as Administrator" whilst going to the Command Prompt to make you
command work?


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Regards.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Gerry Cornell said:
Andre

Will you need to right click on the Command Prompt and select "Run as
Administrator" whilst going to the Command Prompt to make you command
work?
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I dont' know. I just clicked on the link in my profile and keyed in the
command. All is working as it should.
 
Hi David,

This is privilege elevation. Your account is an admin account (ie: part of
the administrators group, but it is not "the" administrator), but you need
to intentionally invoke any operation that will make system alterations, and
this requires root privilege which is not automatic for reason of security
concerns. The prompt is to ensure that you are actually doing this, and that
it is not the result of a virus or other malware trying to surreptitiously
install itself on your system. Linux has worked this way since inception,
Windows is just catching up. The true 'administrator' account is normally
disabled by default so that those same malware programs cannot access it and
use its elevated privileges without the user's knowledge.

As to the problem with Internet Explorer, I've found that this most often
occurs when a plug-in or add-on has been installed that cannot operate
correctly without these elevated privileges. Going into Tools/Internet
Options/Programs tab and opening the Manage Add-Ons will allow you to
selectively disable these programs. Once the plug-in is disabled, IE will no
longer prompt for elevated privileges as it will run normally under any user
account.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Certain commands will need full priviledges, especially if its a Command
that is editing something.
 
Andre

Given that you may or may not know whether full privileges are
needed isn't it simpler to right click on the Command Prompt and
select "Run as Administrator" whilst going to the Command Prompt,
unless there is a down side?

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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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