I am not sure where to post this but will try here. As an XP user who is now trying the Win 7 Beta, I have found most things work well and software installation and configuration has worked for most applications. I set up Win 7 as a clean install on a second hard drive, thus creating a dual boot system., without having to use my XP setup. However, the one thing that is really confusing is the frequent warnings that I do not have administrator rights to install a program or to update a program. On two occassions, I could not install or upgrade programs at all because quote "I am not an administrator." I have the security setting setting to minimum, the first step on the scale. Given that I installed it on my computer, set up my name, computer name, etc; can anyone explain to me why I am not the administrator of my own machine? I'm sure there must be an explanation or a way to change permissions or rights, but I haven't been able to figure it out. Thanks. Following is my system configuaration:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7000 Build 7000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name GARYROSS-PC
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model GT5028
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 10/02/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.2
Windows Directory H:\Windows
System Directory H:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale Canada
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7000.0"
User Name GARYROSS-PC\GARYROSS
Time Zone Canada Central Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.25 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.50 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.79 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.62 GB
Page File Space 3.54 GB
Page File H:\pagefile.sys
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7000 Build 7000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name GARYROSS-PC
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model GT5028
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 10/02/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.2
Windows Directory H:\Windows
System Directory H:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale Canada
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7000.0"
User Name GARYROSS-PC\GARYROSS
Time Zone Canada Central Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.25 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.50 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.79 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.62 GB
Page File Space 3.54 GB
Page File H:\pagefile.sys