no admin priv in 7057 and no uac?

well i finally upgraded to 7057, disabled uac and went to set up the 'vista' 7 sidebar trick, i had it working great in 7000 but now when i try to copy the files over with uac disabled and i have my main account set up as administrator it is still saying i need admin privileges to perform this action? also i have set up the 'take ownership' tweak in 7000 and now when i right click and select take ownership it doesnt work.

could this have something to do with the fact i done an upgrade? will i need to re-apply the administrator account and 'take ownership' tweaks? (as i cannot remember where these threads were )

if there are already posts relating to this just let me know as i hunted around but got lost in the meantime. lol

thnx for any info.

regards,
Rick

swarfega said:

I think its because you upgrade installed rather than clean install. I had the same issue when I upgraded from 7022 to 7048 so decided to clean install 7057 which no issues so far.

i was really hoping not to have to do a clean wipe, some programs i cannot get hold of again (torrents)

You should be able to use gadgets with UAC off in these build and here is the link for the Take Ownership Shortcut

Mr GRiM said:

You should be able to use gadgets with UAC off in these build and here is the link for the Take Ownership Shortcut

yes i can use the sidebar but i wanted to use the 'vista' sidebar that i had in b7000, so i can have the gadgets on top so if something is maximized the gadgets have thier own area. but this is due to the administrator account i set up in b7000 not having full admin rights in 7057 due to the upgrade.

thnx for the take ownership link tho, i couldn't find it b4.

EDIT: excellent, the take ownership done the trick to copy the sidebar folders over!

still would be good if i could get the admin account to work how it should tho.

jfar said:

Hi,bloke,just as a matter of interest why don't you just turn on UAC for a couple of days, until you get set up,just a suggestion.

uac restricts what you can do with certain folders, which is what i was trying to figure out with uac already disabled and my account was administrator, but due to me choosing the upgrade option when i installed 7057 (so i wouldnt lose all my programs and games) it somehow had a affect on the admin account and now is the same as setting up a standard account eg: joe blob as the owner, instead of keeping it as administrator so i have full access to everything (which imo is how it should be). i just find this bizzare.