I've been demoted "need administrator privileges"

From the system admin account.... access denied on changing the permissions of then Program(x86) folder

That's kinda' strange actually.

You should not be changing permissions on ANY windows system folder. That includes Program Files and Program Files(x86) and be very careful of anything under Users. Don't touch ANYTHING under /Windows or if you see a /Documents and Settings folder show up on the root drive (Just ignore that folder completely).

Changing permissions on things randomly without understanding why they are set that way will merely cause your insall to behave worse and worse till it may become unusable. Program files is made unchangable without admin or system priviledges so that programs (virii etc) cannot screw with other installed programs. There is a reason why W7 has been MUCH less suseptable to virii attacks than XP...

In over a year of using Windows 7 release and in beta, I have NOT ONCE needed to go full admin. It's just not necessary AT ALL on a local system except for some /extremely/ limited issues.

Too many people try to wrest god like control over their system without having god like knowledge of its workings and end up having a non-functional system as a reasult

richc46 said:

No, you can use easy trasfer to move everything but the programs. Interested?

Alright. I'm interested...... If nothing else I can keep my old account around till IT gets around to updating things.

I hope your still logged in...... :)

There appears to be a problem with MY account. I don't know what or how, but two other admin accounts seem to work fine and mine..... not so good.

fseal said:

Too many people try to wrest god like control over their system without having god like knowledge of its workings and end up having a non-functional system as a reasult

We GODS are offended....and we want full control.

Ummmmmmm, hold on a second.

OK, when I setup the computer I created an account in domain MATT-M4500 a.k.a. "My computer"

IT give me access to the network, so I login as WORK\Matt...... it's supposed to be MY account, just another domain.

Let's see if I can explain this:
One of my failed attempts to install software under MY account resulted in a dead shortcut on my desktop. I tried to delete it and it give me a permissions error and asked for admin privileges.

I entered my WORK\Matt and password..... Sorry bud, no privileges
I entered my MATT-M4500\Matt and password and viola..... the file is deleted!!!!


So um, do I need to somehow link MATT-M4500\Matt with WORK\Matt??????

That's the one thing the working accounts DO have in common...... they're all on MATT-M4500 domain! The account that does NOT work (MY account) is on WORK's domain.

Does that make sense, or mean anything???

Gosh it wasn't this complicated on XP!!!!