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Ritzter13
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:08 am |
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This has always bugged me. I mentioned this to a friend at work who also said he has this happen but has no answer. Why, even though there is only one account on the computer (me), that I get a "must have Administrator Privilege" to perform an operation or make a change. 99.9% of the time when I click the continue button the process completes with out a hitch. There has been in a rare instance where it didn't complete. I can't site specifics at the moment. Am I not the admin of my own machine? Is there a fix for this?
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JoanA
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:28 am |
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I don't have an answer either, it's not something that's happened to me. Perhaps it's something to do with security and you need to take ownership of the specific file or whatever. I bet our resident experts will have an answer, sorry I'm not one of them.  I have seen posts about it in newsgroups and other forums I belong to but I've never really taken much notice so any answers have just slipped by me but I bet if you hang on a bit there will be someone along to tell you all you need to know on the subject. 
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:44 am |
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It has to do with UAC - User Account Control. It is there to protect the PC from scripted actions and to cause you to consider what action you are taking as it is making a system change.
The reason you simply click continue without needing to provide admin credentials is because your user ID is already an Administrator.
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JoanA
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:56 am |
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Thank you Stephen, there you are Ritzter I told you one of our experts would know.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:13 am |
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When UAC steps in and there is not an install going on you are usually doing something within a system folder such as Program Files or User.
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Ritzter13
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:11 am |
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Well then, that explains it. I was worried that somewhere along the way I was demoted.  Joan I always have confidence in the group here. Wizards they are!
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:17 am |
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Also keep in mind that an admin account in Win 7 is not the same as it was in XP. In Win 7 an admin account would be more like what a power user was in XP.
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