Why I Cant Make "run As Admin" Option Even If I On Admin Acccount
Aug 7, 20081.why i cant make "run as admin" option even if i on admin acccount?
2.how i can stop hard drive flashing w/o stop.
3.why copy/paste take so long?
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Power Management Admin Option Change
Mar 27, 2008Is there a definitive description of the Vista Power Management options? Something like a system adminstrator description of all the options and what affect each change will have.
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Sep 22, 2009im trying to forward some ports through my modem (not firewall). i try entering my default gateway into the internet browser address, but it pops up a screen that asks me for a username and password, it never used to do that before i got this new internet. i tried all the default options like "admin" for username and "password" for password. or "admin" for both username and password, but nothing seems to let me into my modem settings,
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Oct 19, 2009I am using a Dell XPS 1330 machine running Vista Home Premium.
I needed to replace some files(tcpip.sys,tcpreg.sys etc)in the system 32 folder with their new versions. But Vista wont let me copy them to the destination folder(system 32) citing admin reasons.
Read a bit and found out that "Administrator" account is by default disabled in Vista.
So ran the following 2 commands from command prompt to enable Admin account and set the admin password.
net user administrator password
net user administrator activate:yes
After that logged off and was expecting to see the admin login option on the welcome screen. But it didnt come.
Actually in the control panel user accounts I can see myself as Administrator....but I guess that is some administrator with limited powers and there is a greater/stronger/divine/all-conquering "Administrator" above this crappy admin category to which I right now belong and which Microsoft has due to some inexplicable reasons kept undercover. So plz plz help me and lemme know how to get that all-conquering admin to come on my welcome screen so that i can log in and try out what I want.
Admin Permissions And Local Admin
Jun 4, 2008wont allow me to access my "Msn" and my burning tools" they both say u need admin permissions and local admin or something like that, as far as i know, i am logged in as admin, that is also the only user account avilable on start up, and i did just format my pc.
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Mar 5, 2009We use a financial application that stores financial data for clients in a database file (mdb). When we run the application in Vista as-is (i.e. without enabling "Run as Administrator"), we see [and can retrieve] any saved case data. However, if we enable the "Run as Administrator" option and launch the app we no longer see that saved data in the application. If we disable the "Run as Administrator" option again we can once again see that saved data in the app. Any new cases saved with the app open with "Run as Administrator" enabled do not seem to disappear like the ones saved with that option enabled, regardless of whether the option is enabled or not. Does this particular option perform something like a "rollback" when enabled, causing sort of an undo action to happen to the application, or could this be some kind of security issue that "blocks" or "hides" the data?
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Apr 3, 2008How do I log in as an administrator? I understand, that this is some"hidden" account, and my name, even if I set it as administrator, does not have FULL administrator rights. So, how do I log-in as "true"administrator.
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May 20, 2008my partner has taken control of my admin account and has locked me out of my computer...
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May 11, 2009I'm over Microsoft already too many problems (from office mainly). First problem is I cant open anything unless I run as admin but I can live with that for now. When i open word theres no line blip thing and when I type there is nothing. The only way I can type is if I open a template or an existing document. I tried highlighting but nothing is highlighted. I tried going on print preview to see if anything is even there but there's nothing.
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May 15, 2008Vista 64 Home Premium.
Where is the tab/command to initialize (fdisk?) a new HDD?
I am logged in as Administrator (system says so) with full control/permission.
I can see the hard drives in the Device Manager/Disk Drives. All drives are "good" per the controller and I can see them as physical devices on the computer.
They all show as "Not Initialized" when I ask each to opopulate the Volumes info, and there is no obvious/apparent way to do it. Nothing on the controller shows it either.
Tried "Simple New Volume" under Disk Management--
doesn't/won't work because drive is not initialized.
One drive = one big partition = one drive letter.
Determine If A User Is An Admin
Feb 6, 2009I am using the techinque to get the TokenElevationType using the API GetTokenInformation on Vista to determine if a user is an admin. It seems to work fine on Vista Business/Ultimate etc. However, it fails on Vista Home. Does anyone have any clues? The code is along the following lines:
TOKEN_ELEVATION_TYPE elevationType;
DWORD dwSize;
GetTokenInformation(hUserToken, TokenElevationType, &elevationType,
sizeof(elevationType), &dwSize);
switch (elevationType)
{
case TokenElevationTypeDefault:
TRACE(_T("TokenElevationTypeDefault - User is not using a split token"));
m_bAdmin = FALSE;
break;
case TokenElevationTypeFull:
TRACE(_T("TokenElevationTypeFull - User has a split token, and the
process is running elevated"));
m_bAdmin = TRUE;
break;
case TokenElevationTypeLimited:
TRACE(_T("TokenElevationTypeLimited - User has a split token, but the
process is not running elevated"));
m_bAdmin = TRUE;
break;
}
Admin Account Missing
Mar 14, 2009i was messing around with the user accounts. For some reason when i go to switch user or log of I only have the option to log on as a regular user without admin rights. its says AMD below the picture... Now if i go into the user account settings i see my created admin account but i can not make any changes since I have no admin rights on the account i am logged in with. When I try to switch users I cant because only the account with no rights appears.
I tried to boot in save mode to see if the admin account is hidden...it is not but it says ASP.NET with the name of the admin account ( no idea if that means any thing) When I try to unhide a account if gives me error messages. So I have an admin account but it is not visible when trying to log in..in order for me to install programs or allow downloads in need to be the admin.
Secure Superowner Above Admin
Feb 5, 2009I need to get something straight with the underlying security layers or ermisisions of vista (ultimate). I have created a group SUPERUSER in which I have added my admin user account (NOTE, not administrator but another account with Administrative privileges, i.e. is part of group Administrators).
I have only added this one account to the superuser, and NOT the administrator. Now... This is because I wish that the superuser has a folder lets say where not even the other administrators can access! Question is this: Should I add SYSTEM as well as SuperUser (both with full rights) and remove ALL OTHER GROUPS to this folder.........
Cannot Access My Old (Admin) Account On My PC
Dec 23, 2008Upon restarting after attempting to change my SID [I KNOW. STUPID MOVE ON MY PART], I cannot access my old (Admin) account on my PC. Is there ANY way to recover from this? I mean there has to be some kind of solution to getting the account back considering my hard drive is still filled with all of the data stored on the user account & I can still see the folder on my guest account, just can't access it.
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Feb 13, 2009A friend of my sisters has asked me to look at her PC, as it keeps "just crashing". A thorugh technical description to help I know!.However, I have found that the PC, which is running Vista Home Premium, has 3 user accounts.
1) Admin account with password
2) Standard User
3) Guest
I can not log into the admin account as I do not have the password, and my sisters friend is unreachable.The standard user account, wont letme do anything remotely techy, or use any system tools, or install my own PC diagnostic tools. The user account doesn't have the correct permission. It wont even update any of the virus definitions with out asking for the password.I have a copy of Active Password changer, that I have used in the past in these circumstances, but the PC was bought from a big retail chain, and has been set up with the usual hidden partion with important files on it. So Active Password Changer can not see the partion with the SAM database on it to change the admin password.
Admin Files On XP Need To Open On Other PC
Mar 23, 2008My stationary pc with XP broke, now I have a laptop with Vista. I connected my stationary harddrive as USB connection to my laptop. I can view all files but I have importand files in XP my personal admin account as on my documents and settings, my pictures, and other files that was on XP windows desk. This files I can not view or open, it says it need admin rights to open. I can also say I had a log in pass for XP, I know that password. How can I get a hand of this importand files. There is a tool in Vista systemtools "Windows filetransfer" it say it can transfer accounts also. what folder should I transfer to my laptop, I know I have to transfer my documents and setting on my own account, but do I need the admin account and I have one more guest account I don't need that. Do I need to transfer the Windows folder? Is there anyother way to get hand of this admin locked files, any software I can use directly so I don't need to transfer?
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Sep 6, 2008New here, and to Vista..........Hp dv9580us laptop with lotso problems. Right now I'll settle for a few progams working right. Spybot needs to be elevated with admin rights to be fully functional? Also Iobit defrag runs once the the program starts but the box is not up, its started but no visual box?
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Mar 23, 2008Is this necessary? I see it as a hack to circumvent tight code. I always use an account with admin rights so I know when/what to install/run.
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Jan 21, 2008I just upgraded to Vista from XP. It appears that I should have setup a admin password prior to upgrade. Can you advise any options on how to get it? If I need to remove Vista, can you tell me how I can do that and revert back to XP safetly? At this point I am ok with not keeping the info on my old PC.
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Sep 21, 2009I have two highschool daughters with laptops they use at school running Vista Home Premium. I have them running on user accounts and I don't want them to have the admin password because if they know what it is they will simply start typing it in all the time, which defeats the whole purpose of running as a user account. There are only two things they need to do that Vista Home Premium UAC doesn't seem to allow without the admin password - connect thumbdrives and connect printers. They need to do both of these things at school.
Is there any way to disable the admin account security only on these two tasks? Also I can easily upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. If Vista Home Premium can't do it, would upgrading to W7 Ultimate enable me to potentially resolve this security problem? Thumbdrives are the new CD/DVD so it seems really shortsighted not to have a CD/DVD-style security model for them.
Asks The Admin Password
Feb 24, 2009On my grandmas computer, I created a 2nd account and made it the admin account. At some point, this account somehow became a standard account and now there is no admin. Now whenever I try 2 do nething, it asks for the admin password but the area where you would enter the password and the OK key are greyed out. ive tryed a few things I thaut of and a few things from other sites including starting in safe mode and reinstalling vista completely, of course reinstalling didnt work because it needs permission to run. Ive posted on like 5 forums and asked all my friends and no1 has a clue how to fix this or even how its posible so if ne1 has ne idea wat 2 do.
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Nov 28, 2008tried searching for it ,tried searching for individual pics nothing,it was once in my documents but i couldnt open it some rubbish about not being administrator ( yes i am btw) my videos and my music have now gone awol in total ive lost everything. ive been googling for solutions but none work (and ive tried a lot ). hundreds of photos and videos and a shed load of mp3,s all gone for no reason. how the hell did this happen i am the only user and didnt /dont have any malware or newly installed programmes.
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Jun 21, 2008I reformatted the computer back to xp for now. Is there a way to shut off all the permissions to continue in vista. If there is I`ll put it back on. but I do alot of work on the computer and it got annoying have to give it permission constantly. I know vista is about security but it has gone alittle to far. Also I got tired of having to try and get a program working . Run as admin wouldn`t work or it was too hard to get permission set up as admin. I`m the only one that runs this computer and noone else touches. So if there was a way to change it.
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Can you guys recommend some FREE password reset programs for the local admin account.
Log In Screen And Admin Account Password
Jan 27, 2008When I initially installed Vista Premium the computer would boot directly into the Administator account. I then set up 2 accounts beside the admin and Vista boots directly into the Admin Desktop. I disabled the Admin account after establishing my other accounts with administrator rights. I know get a message saying that my password is incorrect and then after acknowledging it I go to the Account selection screen.
I would like to have the account screen come up after enabling the admin account vice having the OS boot up and drop me directly into the Admin account.