my computer says i need to rerun applications thru my administrator account but i thought i was --why cant i?
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log in as administrator, go to Control Panel==>User Accounts==>Select your account==>click on Change Account Type==>Make sure it says Computer Administrator.
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It sounds like you are trying to install a program that requires administrator level rights and you don't have them. This is common with Windows XP accounts that have restrictions set up for the other users.
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I agree with Dhruv...  There are several ways that you can mess up your administrator account, especially if you delete Administrator Folder in the the 'Documents and Settings' folder on the C: drive.  However, if you can logon at all (try the built-in 'guest' account, it probably has no password) there is probably some other account with adminitrative priveleges that you can find in the Control Panel under Users and Groups.\nSo... login as Guest, Go in the the Documents and Settings Folder, find out the some other account with Administrative Priveleges (right click on the folder, select properties, and look under the Security Tab, it will say whether that account is part of the Administrators Group).  Try logging in and replicating one of the folders that are part of the administrator group and call it 'Administrator'.  You may have to reset the password at some point, but this may work.\n\nIf you can get into your the administrator account again then you should try to return to a previous "Restore Point".  By default, Windows creates restore points every so often and this is a good way to recover from problems such as yours.\n\nI assume you didn't make any backups of the Documents and Settings folder???  Whoops... this is important.\n\nKen
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use admin or administrator and see if that does tha trick
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if you use windows xp click \n\nstart > set program access and defaults
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You can create a guest account and prevent the changing of any programs and access to the administrator files that is your account on the PC.Nothing they can do can corrupt your data or programs,as the system wont allow any change by the guest.
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You do not have the administrative rights to the computer. If you are at work there is a reason that you are not allowed to install software.\n\nIf this is your home computer, then somehow you have accidentally set up your windows profile as to not have administrative access. The only way to fix this is to use a profile that does have admin access to edit your profile to give it admin access, or create a new profile and have that setup as administrator.
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the best thing is to reinstall the application once again
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I'm not aware of any special "administrator" directions.  Maybe the message was that you need to have "administrator privileges" to install the program?\n\nCan you post the exact error message for us?
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no u cant , its a program used for running ur system
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can't do it, unless you are an administrator
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Are you the Administrator of your computer?\nif not, then either contact the admin, or get in admin mode, whichever\nAre you downloading it onto your hard-drive or clicking run?\nif its on your hard drive then you have to find it and double click on it to run\nIs there anything blocking you firewall/anti virus/popup blocker?\nmake sure you are allowing the program through\n\nR3dm0
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do you have a limited account or an administrator account, it probably requires an admin account to run it
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i am having the exact problem, i think you have to have administrative rights, that is all i can think of because i don't have admin on this computer, and ive tried pretty much everything
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because you are not the administrator the administer can lock certain applications so that not just anyone can change settings on the computer
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call ur administrator to c wat going on ... ^_^
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It sounds like your system is on a network and the admin has enabled a Group Policy Object that restricts you from shutting down your machine or rebooting it.  (Pretty dumb if you ask me, but the option is there and I've seen admins do it.)\n\nAre you also saying that you can't close ANY windows as well?\n\nTry logging off and logging back on with Administrator rights.  If you don't have the admin account password, you'll need to get with your system admin to resolve this issue.