Administrator Problems

After upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate I seemed to have lost administrator
priveliges. One feature of Dreamweaver is the ability to click on an image to
edit, using another program, and it says you must be administrator to preform
this function, and cancels request and won't open graphic program. When I
open Visual Studios, the opening says you need to be administrator to get all
the functions. Under Windows XP I was recognized as administrator of my
computer. Under user groups I put myself as member of administrators. I had
to create a new user, Administrator in order to do this, also to start IIS
7.0 and SQL Server. All my files are under HP_Administrator which has been
the Administrator for the computer in XP. I would like to delete the new user
and have my old user be recognized as administrator.

You need to set the properties of the program to run as admin - even tho you
are an admin the programs you run do run in admin mode unless told to.


"deltacomics" <deltacomics@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate I seemed to have lost
> administrator
> priveliges. One feature of Dreamweaver is the ability to click on an image
> to
> edit, using another program, and it says you must be administrator to
> preform
> this function, and cancels request and won't open graphic program. When I
> open Visual Studios, the opening says you need to be administrator to get
> all
> the functions. Under Windows XP I was recognized as administrator of my
> computer. Under user groups I put myself as member of administrators. I
> had
> to create a new user, Administrator in order to do this, also to start IIS
> 7.0 and SQL Server. All my files are under HP_Administrator which has been
> the Administrator for the computer in XP. I would like to delete the new
> user
> and have my old user be recognized as administrator.

Security is very different in Vista. Your original account is an
administrator if it is in the administrators group. In Vista when you logon
as an administrator you get two security tokens, a regular user and an
administrator. Normally the regular user token is used for security reasons.
If the program was written for Vista it can request that the administrator
token be used. If it wasn't written for Vista you can force it by using Run
as administrator. Here's a FAQ by MVP Jimmy Brush. Be sure to click through
and read the links in the FAQ.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Security/uac_programs.aspx

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"deltacomics" <deltacomics@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1E3B5DBE-0946-4E3B-B47A-620C55ACFE43@microsoft.com...

> After upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate I seemed to have lost
> administrator
> priveliges. One feature of Dreamweaver is the ability to click on an image
> to
> edit, using another program, and it says you must be administrator to
> preform
> this function, and cancels request and won't open graphic program. When I
> open Visual Studios, the opening says you need to be administrator to get
> all
> the functions. Under Windows XP I was recognized as administrator of my
> computer. Under user groups I put myself as member of administrators. I
> had
> to create a new user, Administrator in order to do this, also to start IIS
> 7.0 and SQL Server. All my files are under HP_Administrator which has been
> the Administrator for the computer in XP. I would like to delete the new
> user
> and have my old user be recognized as administrator.

I have set my account as an administrator but certain options within windows
are blocked by an administrator. I thought that I was the only admin as I am
the only person who uses the computer, but when looking through the Users
folder in Windows Explorer I found an Administrator account. How do I log
into or delete this account so that from my account all options are possible?

Hi.

I think you are misunderstanding the prompts you are seeing. Vista behaves
quite differently from previous Windows versions with regard to permissions /
accounts. That "Administrator" account is a built-in account which is
disabled by default (and should remain so). It only becomes available as a
logon option in Safe Mode if all other admin accounts on the system have
become disabled.

To understand how User Account Control works, so that you can do the things
you want to do and so that you understand why UAC issues those prompts, you
might want to have a look at this:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...C/default.aspx

That should help you become comfortable with the way UAC works. I've seen a
lot of people balking at UAC because they don't understand the way it
functions. And who could blame them? Previous versions of Windows would let
an admin do just about anything without so much as a how-do-you-do. Though
most of us might think that's what we want, it definitely isn't what we want
when the operation being requested is being requested by an unknown and
unwanted daughter process of something else that we started. (One example of
a case in which UAC can save your bacon.)

I hope that article is helpful to you. The guy who wrote it is one of the
brightest porch lights on the block.

"mattmullins" wrote:

> I have set my account as an administrator but certain options within windows
> are blocked by an administrator. I thought that I was the only admin as I am
> the only person who uses the computer, but when looking through the Users
> folder in Windows Explorer I found an Administrator account. How do I log
> into or delete this account so that from my account all options are possible?