privileges

Okay... I thought I was tad bit smarter than what I am finding out. I am desperately hoping someone can help me out. I HAVE THREE THINGS (sigh!) 1) Can someone tell me how to disable my UAC Administrator? I am the only person who uses my computer and I am frustrated with constantly...

I was in the user settings earlier, and accidentially removed the admin privilages on the only account which had them. I've tried booting to the last known good config, but with no success. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to avoid reloading 7 if at all possible.

I bought a brand new laptop a week ago. It was loaded with windows 7 professional. When I switched on for the first time it didnt have any user account. So I have created an account for myself as administrator user account. Say 2 or 3 days back I have downloaded GTalk and other softwares and...

Recently I've been unable to install or access certain programs. When I tried to open or install software I get a message that says "A referral was returned from the server" Specifically the problem occurs when trying to use Chrome browser. I am the only user of this computer and have admin...

I was attempting to instal and mod the game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from Bethesda softworks, and was having problems with it, so I decided to statover. I ran all of the relevant uninstalls (the oriignals games, the expansion, the mods) but there is still a bethesda folder in my program files...

After installing the Win7 upgrade I had a problem opening up document shortcuts to various programs. In other words if I try to open a png file in Adobe Fireworks I get this error message: "Your user priviledges do not allow Fireworks to update your registry. Launch and Edit with Dreamweaver...

Hi everyone, I happened to disable my 'Administrator' account from the group policy editor. I have two other accounts, one, a standard account and another one, a guest account. Every time I do something that requires administrator privileges, A dialog appears asking 'To continue, type an...

I'm trying to set up a development environment at work. I'm the only one using Windows. Others have the environment set up on Linux and Mac. I'm hoping this is possible but I'm stuck on one particular issue that is driving me crazy! I need to connect to a shared network drive via NFS. I...

hi I imagine there must be tons of questions and complains about these admin privileges in win7. I tried to figure it out on my own but I'm just going bananas!! windows 7 keeps asking for all kinds of administrator permissions all the time.... but I AM the administrator!... I'm the only user...

I just upgraded my iTunes to the newest version and had no problems. Today I start iTunes and get the following error: "The iTunes application could not be opened. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation." If I go to 'Programs Files (x86)\iTunes' and 'right click' on the...

I've just reinstalled Win 7 today but have still got this same problem whereby I can do almost everything else that requires Administrator privileges, except make changes to programs - it keeps just telling me I need to be an Administrator to uninstall a program, yet I'm the only person using...

I installed the Windows 7 by formatting my C drive(where my xp was installed). On another partition i had (and still have) encrypted files. When i installed Windows 7 i tried to open those encrypted files (those with the green name) but said i don't have the privileges. I tried to decrypt them...

Been trying to install Bumptop for my desktop but get 1 of 2 errors. - Do not have sufficient privileges to alter windows/winsxs/policies i am definitely the admin, said to run as SYSTEM, as a beta user do i now have control over my pc (for installation anyway)? tried new user name...

Hi. The main (and only account) I have been using since the first beta came out had administrator privileges. Today when I booted up I noticed that my account could no longer do things that are associated with an admin account, such as installing certain programs and writing to certain...

I have a few programs which require administrator privileges. I have tried running them normally... running them as administrator... I have even gone as far as to enable the admin account and then try running it. It is the same result every time... "You need to be administrator to run this...

Ok...this may be a tricky one...I've been searching around on quite a few forums, and nothing yet. So, the other day, I booted into Windows 7 (I'm dual-booted with XP), and I no longer have an admin privledges on my only account. I've tried using the net user administrator commands, but I...

I'm getting quite annoyed with the OS because it constantly is saying I do not have privileges to open a file, or delete a file, or write to a folder. It's confusing because I have UAC off, I am the admin, I check the folder and it says everyone has full privileges and I don't have my firewall...

sooo I have the zune software and after i download the windows 7 beta, i tried to see if it works and it plays music but it wont let me sign in??? can anyone help? also i found this on one of the sites but i dont know how to start it with administrative privileges??? Thanks in advance Zune...

Flash Player Installation problems - solved! I had been having problems ever since I tried to upgrade Flash PLayer when prompted on the net. I know a lot of people have problems installing Flash player so thought I'd tell you how I solved it today - everything I'd tried before from the web had...

The article at Link Removed - Invalid URL (you can find the video link in the article)challenges the sanctity of whole Vista Operating System. The author is doing some nail bitting tasks like: (1) logs-in a User through Run As Administrator option. (2) forces a User to have Dual Identity. (3)...