privileges

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (February 10, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an authenticated attacker acquires administrator...

My Acer computer has recently been telling my computer is not a genuine version of Windows 7. I searched up on how to fix this problem, and almost every post suggested I run cmd with an admin. So, I did so by clicking on "cmd", then clicking "Run as Admin". Then, I did what the website told me...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (October 14, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way the Windows FASTFAT system driver interacts with FAT32...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (May 13, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker runs a specially crafted application that uses...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2829361) and Windows RT (2830290). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (September 10, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker convinces an authenticated user to execute...

hello please help me because i am in trouble I just purchase a new laptop with windows 8 on it, this is the first time I've ever used windows 8. I installed the game, and when I go to play it, I get a message saying: Insufficient privileges: you must be administrator when you run this...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (February 12, 2013) Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves 30 privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to the...

hello to everybody, almost every time i managed to find a solution on internet, but this time!? i have put ssd mushkin chronos deluxe 240gb with new firmware in my asus u36sd. i have msdn versions of both windows and office 2013, other free software without viruses. when i try to fresh...

I bought my LapTop with my hard earned money, and I'm always logged in as administrator - but according to Microsoft I lack privileges and haven't got full administrator rights. In cases when this happens, I'm told to contact administrator... Since I'm not the boss of my own computer, could you...

Hi I noticed a few days ago that my computer power plan was wrong so went to control panel to change and it says some settings are managed by your administrator and wont let me choose anything. - UAC is disabled - My account is only admin account - Global built in admin account is disabled -...

Dear forum Please may I have some advice. I have windows 8 cp installed . I have a hard drive connected to a hard drive caddy, and am using it as an external hard drive: and it contains various audio/text/video files, and these were added to the hard drive when I was using windows xp Now...

Resolves a vulnerability in the Windows OpenType Compact Font Format (CFF) driver that could allow elevation of privileges if a user views content that is rendered in a specially crafted CFF font. Link Removed

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...

I recently did a system cleanse using my anti virus software. i used it primarily to remove unneeded start up programs. in starting it up, my start menu has lost all programs, including folders like Accessories and Paint, Calculator, also my desktop was removed of all Shortcuts. to open a...

I have an app that is supposed to run at startup. It has an option in it to "Start with Windows", but Windows 7's UAC insists on prompting me every time. I tried making a new task in Task manager to run it at startup, and using "Run with hightest Priveleges", but it doesn't work. The app just...

Provides a link to Microsoft Security Advisory (2639658): Vulnerability in TrueType font parsing could allow elevation of privileges. More...

Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2011): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves 15 privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on locally and...

I have been getting a blue screen a lot. I have run all the hardware diagnostics and everything checks out ok. I tried to run chkdsk from a c prompt but I get the message "Access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode." This...

Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (April 12, 2011): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves thirty privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on locally and ran a specially...