Vista Home: Administrator can't download from Windows Update

[HR Puffinstuff]

I have a personal Dell XPS laptop. Today, I tried doing a system restore
but Vista advised that it couldn't complete the process after many failed
attempts. I have removed all the restore points but the first one and when
that didnt work, I disabled system restore, rebooted, and then renabled
system restore same problem.

Finally, I went to Windows Update and I got an error message that only
Administrator can update. I checked the settings in Users and I am
Administratror and I am logged into that account. In fact the two user
accounts are both Administrators.

We are using latest Vista Home.

Any idea how to fix?

Thanks

 

[Earle Horton]

Hmm, you didn't say what the original problem was. I don't suppose you
want to run System Restore for laughs or to see how it works...

Did you try right click, Run as Administrator?

As a last resort, your Dell comes with a Recovery partition that lets you
restore the computer to factory defaults...

 

[Peter Foldes]

You would not by any chance have Norton installed ??