Problems with my administrator?

Shootist said:

delwintanto said:

thanks for your help john47. but, to open manage another account the administrator permission is needed. i already tried it. thanks actually.

So your account, the one you are using now, is not a Administrators account?

yes. the administrator account on my computer is disabled

marsmimar said:

Have you tried right-clicking the program > run as administrator? You didn't specifiy exactly how you "ran the program as administrator".

as i said, i already tried that, but the yes button was grey, so i can't clicked it

delwintanto said:

Shootist said:

delwintanto said:

thanks for your help john47. but, to open manage another account the administrator permission is needed. i already tried it. thanks actually.

So your account, the one you are using now, is not a Administrators account?

yes. the administrator account on my computer is disabled

No what I meant was that when you first install the OS the first named account you create is an administrators account. So it would seem the NAMED account (as apposed to the built in Administrators account which is called Administrator) you are using now is not in the Administrators Group (IE does not have administrator privileges). So you changed that at some point or did this happen all on it own.
The built in Administrator account on all Win 7 installs is set to disable.
Did you at one time have a NAMED Admin account and then disable it after setting up a limited user account?
Are there any other NAMED accounts on this PC that are in the Admin group?

richnrockville said:

FWIW: Something tells me that there is more to this question than meets the eye.
Like it is a work machine and they did not make them an administrator for a good reason.
It is someone else's machine and they don't know that they are messing with it.
It just smells to me.

Rich
But then, I have been wrong before and probably will be again.

I agree it doesn't sound right. But then it could be all the talk about not running under a Admin account for security, yeah right, the OP disabled and or changed his one and only Admin account and now is paying the price.

I have the same problem as well, I am the adminastrator,but yet it wont allow me to open certain files,no idea how to fix this?

Linkz said:

I have the same problem as well, I am the adminastrator,but yet it wont allow me to open certain files,no idea how to fix this?

Can you create other user accounts whether Admin or standard user?

The files and or folders you can't open may be those that the OS has locked or they are junction points. There are folder and files on my 7 PC that I can't open but I AM the ADMINISTRATOR of the PC. This is normal for Win 7.

If you can create other Admin and standard user accounts then your problem is not like the OPs.

It seems he somehow has either disable the admin rights to his account or never had a Admin account.

If I am wrong I am sorry but that is the way it seems to most of the other poster that have replied.