Say sI need to have an Administrator Account

[FlyingDevilFish]

I have a new HP laptop with Vista Home pro. I am trying to install programs or edit the start-up and Vista keeps saying I am not an adminisrator. There is only on accout and control panels says its an admin (only one account it has to have admin rights). Any ideas?

 

[linney]

In Vista all Administrators run with the same Privileges as a Standard User (this is by design). What you have to do is look for a right-click option, on any .exe, or Shortcut, and select the "Run As Administrator" option.

.msi files are a bit different however, so you might need something like these.

MsiRunAsAdmin.

MSI "Run as administrator" Context Menu for Vista

http://www.symantec.com/connect/downloads/msi-run-administrator-context-menu-vista

Can you change .msi to .zip via WinZip etc. and extract the files and find a Setup.exe to right-click on and "Run As an Administrator"?

Try this from an elevated Command Prompt, msiexec /a and your full path to any.msi

You'll have to get use to the terms, "Elevated" and "Elevated Prompt" in Vista too, it just refers to that right-click procedure. As you can see Vista is a bit different than XP.