Solved Admin rights

[TomBoy2010]

Hi, I am a beginner and don't understand the logic of Windows Admin rights:

1. I am the adminstrator (the system control confirms that). Still I can not save a txt file under programs (in that case: under Thunderbird Mozilla / Chrome). WHY?

2. The problem exists even when I individually rightclick on "c:" then "programs" then "thunderbird" then "chrome" and as for extended user rights including Writing for all these folders - something that should not be necessary for Administrators anyway...

3. Following the advic eof another user I went to START cmd and entered: net user administrator /active:yes
- so now I could login as "Administrator". Again, my own private account is already indicated as Administrator - but even if I want to login now with this new User: what's the password for Administratr???


My main problem actually is: Why do I get the message that I can not save IF I am the Administrator?

Thanks

 

[logicearth]

Because you do not have Administrative right until you ELEVATE (See the UAC dialog) until then you run with standard user privileges to prevent system files from being changed. If you want to run something with Administrative power, right-click it then "Run as Administrator"

 

[TomBoy2010]

IOk, I know this rightclick function - but for the moment I just want to save a txt-file in a folder under "programs". so, there is no application to run as administrator. How doing that?

 

[logicearth]

Run Notepad as Administrator then save it. Or Save it to another location then drag-and-drop it where it should go.

 

[Barman58]

User Account Control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For a reasonable explanation

 

[TomBoy2010]

ok, that worked. Thanks a lot.