(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:55 am
Post subject: my computer says im not administrator(a lost in translation versio Archived from groups: microsoft>public>windows>vista>installation_setup (more info?)
im an exchange student in germany and i thought "hey to help with my german,
i should buy a german laptop" happenstance has it that i cant fix any
troubleshoots because ...i cant speak german. Ive installed a few programmes
but for some reason when i tried to install a certain programme, my computer
told me that i wasnt an administrator. Answers bitte:D
(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:34 pm
Post subject: Re: my computer says im not administrator(a lost in translation versio [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
alostintranslationboy wrote:
> im an exchange student in germany and i thought "hey to help with my
> german, i should buy a german laptop" happenstance has it that i cant fix
> any
> troubleshoots because ...i cant speak german. Ive installed a few
> programmes but for some reason when i tried to install a certain
> programme, my computer told me that i wasnt an administrator. Answers
> bitte:D
You may be using an account that has administrative privileges (and really
you shouldn't be doing this in Vista - it's best practice to run as a
Standard user), but you aren't the root administrator. Here is a link
explaining this:
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