admin privileges

Hi I am a dad who wants to give his rebellious pre-teen daughter some control on her laptop, like update iTunes or install games, but she cannot do such as a Standard User. I initially setup her laptop with both of us (dad and daughter) as admin users. I wanted to be an admin user to help...

Hello, I've been having a recurring BSOD issue for the past couple of months. Every time that the BSOD window appears for long enough to read what's happened it has been a "system_service_exception". I've been reading a few threads on this forum and tried applying some advice I've read but I...

I have an issue pertaining to admin permissions and read-only files. It seems all my files and folders are read only, and when I remove read only it automatically reverts back to read only when I check again. I am administrator with full privileges. Sometimes I get a prompt saying 'i need admin...

I was kind of thrown into the issue of allowing a user to have admin rights on their own system, eg., download various programs like Firefox, Adobe stuff, and before I go in to muddle things up, I must ask how to do this..... Many thanks in advance. imgain

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Hi guys im hoping someone here might be able to help me, im at a loss with the problem we are having and MS dont have a clue what it is. Problem: We have around 15 printers on site all running off the network, static IP's the usual setup. For some reason since we have upgraded the computers to...

Hi All, I am not able to open the task using windows schedular when run with admin privelage in schedular.Please let me know what might be the issue I need to run the task with following options set on schedular Run With user Logged on or not Run with highest privelages...

While this question has been asked before, I have yet to find a solution that I can actually use. A virus (Lord only knows how I got it), downgraded all my Privileges even though I'm set as Administrator. In order to fix my computer, I first need to reset all Privileges back to their...

I have a fresh install of windows vista 3 days ago. Ever since,,,CERTAIN downloads would install and some would not even download. I am bewildered at the reason WHY this would happen. Like i said,,,some programs does download and install and some would download ONLY, and some would NOT download...

Hello Experts, My current Wifi Setup at home is extremely basic. I have a Wireless modem. This is password protected. I picked up a new Dell XPS laptop (64bit Win7 Premium) a couple of weeks ago and went through the basic setup of connecting to the Internet through the network wizard...

On my new Windows 7 - 64 bit computer, occasionally the system would ask me if I wanted the Admin Privileges needed to perform some task I was trying, I'd say Yes, & life was good. But today I wanted to create a new folder in c/program files (x86)/turbotax, & the system said i could only create...

Recently my girlfriend's computer had the error, User Profile Won't Load... When I try to do a system restore it asks for her password and I put it in then it says the restore programs cannot be found. At the same time on an alternate profile she has an ip conflict problem and I cannot begin to...

Heya, I'm having some trouble coping with Win7's harddrive protection or whatever it is. I have 2 external harddrives and every time they go to connect with another computer I'm told I need admin priviliges to access the folders there. Is there a way to, once and for all, disable this wierd...

Hello I started out with Windows 7 Ultimate installed on my C:\-drive, then decided to, for evaluational purposes, partition it in two roughly equal-size parts using EASEUS Partition Master 4.0 Home Edition and labeled them Win7_1 (C) and Win7_2 (D) respectively. Win7_1 (C) holding the original...

Ok, I have found many examples of this but every solution I have read doesn't work for me, I'll start at the top in what steps I have taken to the current situation. On installing Windows 7 it worked flawlessly, proceeded to install apps etc, that evening I turned off. On login the next day no...

Hey all, I've got: HP notebook a Pavillion dv9000 9930us 4 gig DDR2 SDRAM Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS 320 gig HD Was: Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Now: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and windows 7 does not love me. Every time I install things look to be going smoothly, then on the first boot (and...

I have a little strange problem under Windows 7 x64 using the copy command at the command prompt. If I enter the following command at an elevated command prompt: copy somefile c:\ it copies the file somefile to c:\. Now when I create a batch file from this command and run it with admin...

I am trying to autostart a program with admin privileges using the task scheduler trick outlined here: Make Vista launch UAC restricted programs at startup with Task Scheduler | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com But, I'm running into a problem. The program is Everything Search Engine. When...

I am asking for suggestions. I had no issues at first but suddenly IE 8 refuses to open. I have tried safe mode, reset, and just about everything else I can think of. I really like 7 and was about to move everything across from dual boot XP when this happened. Also I think my issue may be...

whenever i try to connect to a server on UT3, the game crashes. i've tried changing the compatibility settings, but it didn't work with any of the combinations i tried. i just installed the latest graphics driver from nVidia and the latest game patch from Epic, but neither helped. the only thing...