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Administrator rights problem
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Administrator rights problem
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Posted by anu
(240 messages posted)
After a year of being 'satisfied' using Vista Basic and Premium, now it is giving
me a headache and involves Spybot S & D. It tells me I do not have "administrator
rights" when I click Immunize on the left and top panes so I cannot enable protection
for the downloaded updates. I have to turn off the UAC to be able to do this.
I am the only user that is setup as an administrator. I changed the properties of
all the .exe files inside the Spybot folder "to run as administrator." No luck.
So, what am I missing here? Thanks.
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re: Administrator rights problem
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 7:04 am
Posted by Charlie Hadden
(405 messages posted)
You probably installed it with the UAC turned off and it can't find where it is installed.
Many programs install to different location, especially software that incorporated
a data base, with UAC turned off compared to it being turned on. You may not be able
to use it both ways unless you install it under each. Also what you call Administrator
rights are not the Administrator Account which is not turned on in VISTA automatically.
This is a hidden resource and needs to be turned on. MS had too many problems with
complaints from people trying to fix something only to mess it up worse, due to having
full Admin. privileges.
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re: Administrator rights problem
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 10:10 am
Posted by anu
(240 messages posted)
Thanks. I think I found the solution but have not tried it yet.
On Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 7:04 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:
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>You probably installed it with the UAC turned off and it can't find where it is
installed.
>Many programs install to different location, especially software that incorporated
>a data base, with UAC turned off compared to it being turned on. You may not be
able
>to use it both ways unless you install it under each. Also what you call Administrator
>rights are not the Administrator Account which is not turned on in VISTA automatically.
>This is a hidden resource and needs to be turned on. MS had too many problems with
>complaints from people trying to fix something only to mess it up worse, due to
having
>full Admin. privileges.
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