Windows 7: another question for you all

vautter · 09 Sep 2009

Well i am a window's 7 user as of about three hours ago. However whenever I go to install something such as google chrome, or bittorrent I keep getting the same error to show up

(it says "windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to access this item.)

I am sure this is something simple, but I have searched all over in security and installation stuff, and really not having any luck at all, also my legal copy of office 07 is throwing a 1406 code as well and I can't get that resolved. Any help would be great, thanks from a new user

Dwarf · 09 Sep 2009

Hi vautter and welcome to Windows 7 Forums

Have you tried right-clicking on the main setup or installation files and selecting Run as administrator? Note that you will need to provide administrative credentials to continue.

mansrm81 · 09 Sep 2009

Have you tired to unzipping it.

vautter · 09 Sep 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Dwarf

Hi vautter and welcome to Windows 7 Forums

Have you tried right-clicking on the main setup or installation files and selecting Run as administrator? Note that you will need to provide administrative credentials to continue.

I don't seem to have that option when i get to the setup portion. sorry this may be something simple but it is not working on any programs, zipped or not. no adobe, google chrome, nothing

vautter · 09 Sep 2009

just tried adobe again and still says the same error code,

"windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to access this item"

anyone else have some ideas? i wouldn't be up at 4 in the morning but I kinda need access to my microsoft office and these other things, any ideas on the error code with the office softwarE? I have a valid key and typed it correctly

Orbital Shark · 09 Sep 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by mansrm81

Have you tired to unzipping it.

I'm thinking that it may be a file within an archive (zip), you will need to extract the files to a folder (normally in 'Downloads') in order to successfully run any file.

Hope this helps

OS

vautter · 09 Sep 2009

extracting the files into another folder did work, however this does not solve my problems with adobe, google chrome, and my microsoft office problems, any advice on those?

Barman58 · 09 Sep 2009

Can we assume that the program installers you are using are on original media or are they archived on a hard disk. If it's the latter and this drive was used under XP or Vista, you will need to take control of the drive and give at least the system administrators full control

vautter · 09 Sep 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Barman58

Can we assume that the program installers you are using are on original media or are they archived on a hard disk. If it's the latter and this drive was used under XP or Vista, you will need to take control of the drive and give at least the system administrators full control

This computer was a vista computer, so i would assume the latter, and how would I access full control?

Snufffed · 09 Sep 2009

There is a addon reg entry to give you Admin access "Takeownership" via right click mouse.
that is the easyiest way I know.

Take Ownership Shortcut

You have to disable UAC before you install.
----------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas]
@="Take Ownership"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"
------------------------------------------------------
add via reg entry. This is what I use.

Windows 7: another question for you all

another question for you all problems?