Cannot delete itunes and others in Vista

[blitz92]

Hello, Running a laptop with vista 32 bit premium ( i think ) Vista came preinstalled. I am the owner administrator, and there are no other user
accounts on the machine. Trying to clean off some unused programs to create some harddrive room and vista will not let me remove them. Trying to delete itunes, quicktime, preinstalled games, and such , not system files or
components. When trying to delete from control panel, vista chugs along for a little bit and come back and says I don't have permission to remove this software, contact the system administrator. I went back and checked, and the owner profile says it's an administrator. Went to msconfig and clicked startup and took out itunes and quicktime from running at startup, rebooted and I still can't remove it. Don't see an ininstall in the itunes menu options, contacted gateway ( laptop manufacture ) and they were clueless. I don't want to reformat the machine to get rid of this stuff, what next???

HELP!!!

blitz92

 

[BadBigBen]

In VISTA, there is only one TRUE administrator, any user with admin privileges is actually a regular account with HEIGHTENED privileges (something like a SUPER USER)... as long as UAC is running that is...

now you can either turn off UAC completely, leaving the machine in a state much like XP, namely opened security...

or you can enable the hidden Administrator Account, and remove those programs through it, and then hide that account once more...

Read:

Enable the (Hidden) Administrator Account on Windows Vista

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...idden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.

 

[linney]

Never tried this but you could launch Disk Cleanup and right-click on the icon and select the "Run As Administrator" option to get the higher privileges. When Disk Cleanup loads Select your C: drive, then when offered, select "Clean up System Files" (it's down at the bottom of the page), finally look under the "More Options" tab in order to access the "Programs and Features" applet (with Administrator privileges, I hope) .

Disk Cleanup can be found here.

Start Menu\All Programs\Accessories\System Tools

You can use Disk Cleanup to clean up the rest of your drive too.