admin rights

Some games (e.g. Spore) REQUIRE Administrator rights to run properly. I have my son setup as a standard user and everytime he wants to play he needs me to come upstairs to "Run as administrator" and enter a password. Is there any way around this, perhaps some way to save the password for just...

I have 3 drives - 1 with my previous XP on it, 1 with my new WIn 7 Pro and the 3rd with backup data. I'm trying (vainly) to copy the likes of Stationery and Building Blocks etc from my Office on XP over to my Office on Win 7 but it keeps telling me I need permission from the "owner" to do this...

CoH: ToV won't install for me as once it gets to %100 it fails and says the parental controls won't let it install. I am the admin and never have turn on the parental controls before, hack, I never even bother going their until now. I have try running the game as admin and even setting it to win...

Recently rebuild this PC installed faster processor, more ram and a new Solid State HD as well as SATA HD and Windows 7. The main OS runs from SSHD and most of the data files are stored on the SATA drive. When I first installed various programs they ran fine. I installed some to run from the...

it installed fine, but when i try to run it(as admin) i get a D3D_CreateDevice()_failed error.. thats a directx problem right? anyone get this game to work?

Is anyone using BDE in an enterprise ervironment? I might be wrong but I have noticed some things. 1. I have not found a passsword policy to force the password change every 90 days. 2. If someone steals the laptop and uses a piece of software to crack the local admin password they can see...

Hello boards, Title says it in a nutshell. I had Spyware on my XP and it became inoperable to the point where it wouldn't even boot. I made a partition using Hirens BootCD on which I installed my new Win7, which has been great so far, only problem is my access to my old files is denied. I...

so i just got windows 7 and when im playing a game that i want to play windows mode it won't let me unless i run ad admin which is really annoying and i was wondering if anyone knew how to fix that also when im using firefox and i minimize to play a game, and when im done playing im unable to...

I upgraded from windows 7 32-bit version to 64-bit ("custom install" - tried using LapLink's "Windows & Upgrade Assistant". Big mistake, but that's another story.) Afterwards, I downloaded 64-bit version of iTunes, and have had many, many problems getting it to install and run. Following...

Greetings, I want to install XP mode on my machine except that I run into problems while installing it. I get this (it's in french). Roughly, it says: Impossible to create the virtual PC configuration. The user does not have sufficient access rights. Of course, I'm an admin on my machine, I...

I've d/l a mpg file from the SRV and J.Satriani unplugged....i've copied the file to a different location but can't seem to delete the downloaded file. Acces denied and need admin rights etc....anybody any idea's. Cheers

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, but my problem does relate to installing things on Windows 7 so thought this was the best place to post my query. Anyway, I am getting code 2503 and 2502 errors whenever I try to install some apps(COD 4, AMD dual core optimiser, Company of Hero's etc...)...

Hi. I'm trying to install W7 32-bit via partition/iso as per this link: Install Windows 7/ Vista on your Hard disc Without using any DVD/CD or Pendrive (USB drive) Although when I try to go through the step where you need to copy boot/bootmgr into the C:\ drive, it says "You need...

Firstly, many of my files and folders I can't access or change even though I'm administrator. I have the take ownership option but it doesn't always work. When I manually set my computer to sleep it comes back on in a couple seconds to the login screen with the mouse disabled for 20 seconds or...

so i have 3 big problems. background- my laptop's harddrive died, so i took the harddrive out of my external western digital passport and put it into my laptop and installed windows 7. i've never used vista before, so this jump from xp to 7 is quite annoying 1. so a lot files i can't access...

Ok.. Here we go.. (sorry for my english) I installed win7 last week and everything is working real fine except one thing and that is the delay on ventrilo. I guess this have been discussed a lot of times or have it? Its kind of anyoing.. The sound will however appear if i press the "setup"...

[SOLVED] PunkBuster Unknown Windows API Function [131124] [Solved] Solution that I missed and did not know about is to Run the game as admin pfff.... I got the idea from JCook Link Removed "I managed to get Punkbuster to run fine (on Windows 7 Home Premium) by taking a few simple steps.. 1...

So here's what's going on. I have just recently installed windows 7 for the third time now (following build updates ect). I have two hard drives in my computer, one labeled C:\ where windows 7 is installed and the other labeled D:\ which is the drive in question. When I try to copy a folder from...

Hello, My account (1st account created, administrator by default) has lost all administrative rights to install new programs. I've noticed other users on the forum have experienced the same issue but have yet to get a work around. I've tried enabling the 'hidden' administrator account via cmd...