admin rights

Dear all, I have a question about the installation of a program setup file. When I run (as administrator) the setup file wich I have purchased from a supplier no install screen is presented on my desktop Windows 7 Home premium. I see in the taskmanager that a process of that file is running but...

Well I log in at my pc as an Admin and I wanted to edit host file.. but this is impossible since I cant in anyway give to my self the rights to do that. I've read a lot of articles, and some of them says to run wordpad as an admin (from the properties option) but wordpad is only under windows...

I have a program that run at startup. It need administrator privileges / elevation. Running the program on admin account, no problem. Running the program on limited/guest account, I have to fill the password. From admin account, how do I allow my program can run without password prompt? The...

Hey all, First off, let me state that I have looked elsewhere (on other windows forums and tech forums in general) for solutions to this problem, but to no avail. I have found problems similar to the one I'm experiencing, but no tech support guy or gal has got the answer figured out. This is...

I'm using HP Client Automation at my job to handle remote software installs over the network. We are currently repackaging all of our apps to do a major rollout of Windows 7 to replace XP. I use the QB! switch religously during installs in XP to give users an indication that the system is...

Earlier today, I tried to uninstall Office 2007 Trial (which had expired) from my Gateway PC. I have already installed Office 2010 Trial, so both programs are on the PC right now. I could not get the program to uninstall in the Control Panel, so I decided to leave the Office 2007 program on the...

I'm having problems with certain game installations. It uses Installshield and I get a screen talking about how it stopped working. A screen shot of what I get is attached to this thread. Before people list off the common solutions they didn't work. I have tried the compatibility from winxp up...

I have a CD that I can't access because it says I need MDAC. The CD says it will install but it cannot, it tells me to log on as administrator but I already am. I have looked for a download but can't find one that is compatible with Windows 7. Can anyone help. Not too technical please i'm...

I Need to change the fonts in a couple panes in my Thunderbird email program. to do this I do and %APPDATA% and drill down to my ******.default directory and create a chrome folder then make a userChrome.css file with the info I need in it. I get to the folder I need to create a new "chrome" or...

Hello Everyone. today the PC was Okay and normal, then i only just installed Nero9 Lite, for a while. then everything had changed, i can no longer to do a Shut down nor a restart, just log off, switch user and Lock. and there is a Tablet PC input Panel, near the Language icon [EN], which i...

Hi I need some help with a slight problem. I have just got a new Win7 64bit desktop system which has the OS and some applications installed onto a 40GB Sold State Drive which is the C: drive. Naturally, there is now not a lot of room on it but have a 1TB drive (E:) which so far only has a...

Whenever I try some downloaded .exes I get an error saying 'error writing to temp location' or something similar. I've tried running them as admin, tried running them without UAC, and even tried to change the temp location from environment variables but it doesn't change. Is there any fix or...

Hello , I am an Windows 7 Ultimate x64 user and I am using several programms that are experiencing this error with win 7 ( On my laptop where i have Win Xp sp3 this does not occour ) I would like to ask what is causing that even when i am logged in as admin and i even run the programm as admin...

Hello all, My name is Tommy and I am new to the forum. Hope everyone is having a great day and I look forward to reading posts and sharing advise and issues with you all. I have a interesting issue that I hope someone can help me with. I am logged into my Windows 7 machine and I have...

Hello, I support a fleet of about 600 Windows XP machines that will soon be upgraded to Windows 7. We've begun limited testing and I've encountered the first problem related to the heightened user restrictions. A user cannot administrator ODBC settings without local admin rights. Is there any...

I can not believe that Microsoft has managed to mess this up again! I have never been so annoyed with an OS in my life! I did a clean install of windows to a brand new drive on my pc. I have about 7 other drives hooked up to this thing, that all worked fine when I was running XP. Install...

Hey, I have registered here to solve this problem, I am very upset because of it, please help me out: I've set an automatic logon feature on the OS a few days ago (through 'contol userpasswords2'), it worked nice, no problems, suddenly today I've tried to access it again to remove it, then it...

Hi i just bought windows home premium for my family i made three user accounts on my computer one for my self and two for my sons. I am pretty good with computers but because windows 7 is a little different i need some help. Lets get to my Question. I want to make my kids accounts: be...

Hello all, turning to you guys for help as Microshaft want to charge me for support! I am getting Error 2738 Could not access vbscript run time for custom action and cannot solve the problem by removing the registry key HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}...

Hi there, been troubleshooting that damn Windows 7 for a while, and I thought you might have some ideas here. I have installed Openvpn with the admin rights. When launched with user rights, it connects but cannot establish routes (command requires admin), therefore no traffic is routed...