No more administrative powers

> Jordan Carothers <Jordan Carothers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>

> >Hello. I've had my laptop for a little over a year now, at for the first
> >couple months, everything worked fine..But now it seems I have no more
> >administrative powers.

>
> Is this a computer that you don't use very often? There are some
> months missing between "first couple" and now.
>

> > I'm the only account on the laptop however, and I've
> >never made any other accounts. Whenever I try to start a new program or do
> >anything with the administrator symbol on it, a message with the dreaded red
> >X pops up saying "The requested resource is in use." This is preventing me
> >from setting up newly downloaded programs, or doing things such as messing
> >with user accounts on control panel, because they all apparently need
> >administrative access.

>
> The message "The requested resource is in use" says NOTHING about your
> needing Admin privileges to do what you want to do, so that's not the
> problem.
>

> >Does anybody know how I can fix this?

>
> Someone smarter than I am will be along, I'm sure.
>