admin rights

HI - I'm building a W7 PRo PC for a local club and want to lock down the PC. I have setup an Admin account, and set the main user account as a Standard account. I also want them to be able to use W7 Backup/Restore to backup the Standard Users "My Documents" folder to memory stick on a weekly...

So, I recently began receiving this problem which disallows me (although I'm admin, and the only user account on the computer) from creating, moving, or accessing anything within the hard drive. I am also unable to download anything. I'm still able to access stuff outside of the hard drive, but...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2011): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted...

Hi, I've been using a MS Sidewinder keyboard with the Intellitype software and I got my macro keys assigned and working fine. However if a program is right-clicked and "run as admin" then the macro buttons will not work due to missing elevation of privileges for the intellitype processes...

Hello, I've added a new laptop to my home network (now 3 computers, all of them with win 7 ultimate 64) . I didn't use home group because i don't like it, so i configured everything manually and everything worked great, file sharing. printer sharing, everything. And then I added a...

I hope I'm in the correct section. I was refered to this site by another. Great community. To the problem. I was trying to set up a guest user account for others to use my laptop for school work and I tried to block areas of my computer by editing the permission or security. Without paying...

Alright, so, I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Edge S11 (I think, it's a modified one I got from school) It's got a Celeron processor, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB WD HDD, and the integrated Intel graphics. Anyway, I've gotten admin rights on it, and I got an extra 2GB of RAM, and now I want to install 64-bit...

I have tried numerous times in both Command Prompt and Power Shell to set the Environment Variable for "Path" and it will not stick. I have tried running as admin as well. If I test it in the open CMD or Powershell Window it seems to stick, but if I open a new window it is gone. If I go through...

I'm new to the forum. Saw all the great help that has been offered to people (though I haven't found a solution to my problem yet, as it seems to be VERY specific). While looking for solutions I seemed to come very close to finding someone with my exact problem, but not quite. Here goes: I...

Hello, I recently got a new laptop and was eager to setup a wireless network to transfer files from my laptop to my desktop. My laptop is running Win 7 while my desktop is using XP. After I configured the network, file sharing seemed to work perfectly except that on my desktop, I can access...

Hello! I have a really strange problem. I am using Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed. I have a My Book 500GB external hard drive connected to the network via Linksys E3000. Now in Windows 7 I am logged in as Admin. The network disk is configured in Linksys, that an admin group can r&w...

Until a few weeks ago I was running the following computer and I use it just for gaming: Win 7 64 Home Premium Asus P8P67 MB i5 2500k ocz vertex 2 60g-system drive WD 500 GD HDD 8 gigs of ram 2 evga gtx 560 ti in sli The system ran flawlessly. I changed the Motherboard to an Asus P8Z68 and...

I ran an upgrade with win home 7. I am the administrator. When I try to delete old programs, I get a message that reads require permission from Admin or trusted installer. How do I delete these programs. I put my password as an administrator when I logged in. Thanks

Hello I have Windows 7 64bit. If I install a program, it can be installed with right click and then "Run as administrator". Should I do that for every setup? My user account is in the group of administrators.

How do I actually get full admin rights on my computer when I have the only account and it is admin? I mean come on I am trying to restore another hard drive back to 3 days ago and my comp tells me I need admin rights. this is a bit fudge up here, can someone help with this please. I feel like...

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to get a custom software package to work on my domain server. BTW - it works just fine on a workstation. I don't remember having this problem with a simple WG server. What are the best practices for setting this up? I created a folder on the server let's call it...

Hi.. I've been trying to format a RW cd throught the usual right click format option in my DVD/CD- RW (E): drive but I notice both format options (quick format & create and MS-DOS startup disk)are greyed out _unlike what used to be accessable in my previous WinXP OS. the command dose run for...

Recently I reinstalled windows 7 Ultimate. So, I got one of those "windows.old" folders with all my old stuff in it. I take all my stuff out, but for some reason it wont let me delete the windows old folder. It says "This is no longer located in C:\ Verify the items location and try again"...

I am having major issues. I bought my Compaq Pressario desktop this past Feb. It has 2 gig ram, amd anthlon II processor 2.00 ghz, and a 500 gig hard drive running Windows 7 Home Premium. It didn't have service pack 1 which a friend installed from a disk he had as I can't access the Windows...

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium I recently got this Samsung R440 laptop and I've been having trouble installing downloaded programs, (ex. AOL IM, iTunes). Itunes won't even appear when I run the installer. AOL will say "NSIS Error: Error Launching Installer". I've tried...