Laptop UGHHHH

[girl1911]

I just bought a used toshiba satelite laptop and it wont let me do certain things ... keeps saying it dont have administrator rights. Does anyone know WTH? i am signed on as admin lol maybe pc is confused lmao any help is greatly appreciated

 

[Suburbazine]

Running windows XP I presume?

 

[girl1911]

no windows vista

 

[krj1949]

Vista is a very unstable version. If I were you I'd either sell it or purchase the windows 7 upgrade. Could be 1 on many things.

 

[Suburbazine]

You might be able to go to System Level Access on Vista. See my tutorial here:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/582047/recover_files_protected_by_windows_xp/

It's very hit and miss on Vista and does not work on 7.

 

[Fluffy2022]

go to the start tab click swich user and the admin profile should come up and you can do what you need to do in there

 

[lamuskrat]

I would get a copy of Wipe Drive, and completely wipe all data from HDD. This will do it to DoD specs and makes it like a new HDD. You then can put whatever operating system u like on it. Consider Ubuntu which is not M$ proprietary and will not take up a whole lot of space. Should even allow this laptop to run faster.

 

[S&W4ME]

My guess would be operator error

 

[Bosco]

It's called User Account Control. It was released with Vista to help prevent viruses and whatnot. In order to do anything with admin rights you will need to right click the shortcut and select "run as administrator"

You can disable User Account Control (UAC) pretty easily

 

[girl1911]

go to the start tab click swich user and the admin profile should come up and you can do what you need to do in there

already in admin profile

 

[girl1911]

My guess would be operator error

hahahahahahahaha adam bite me lmao

 

[girl1911]

Vista is a very unstable version. If I were you I'd either sell it or purchase the windows 7 upgrade. Could be 1 on many things.

sorry was real late last night on top of that was frustrated and tired lol i am running windows 7 NOT vista

 

[girl1911]

just got the laptop a week ago and only have one account and its admin account but when i ran spybot hit said i couldnt delete anything cause i dont have administration rights

 

[sandman7925]

It's used. That's youre ansawer. That's not something you buy used and expect it to last long.

 

[Bosco]

Windows 7 also uses User Account Control. Are you purposely ignoring me here because I'm 90% sure that disabling UAC will fix your issue?

 

[W1nds0rF0x]

just got the laptop a week ago and only have one account and its admin account but when i ran spybot hit said i couldnt delete anything cause i dont have administration rights

Don't disable UAC, it brings up new issues. When you goto click on the icon to start Spaybot or another program like that, don't just click it, RIGHT click and then click on "Run as Administrator." That should work. Depending on what you do with it, may consider installing Ubuntu.

 

[Bosco]

Don't disable UAC, it brings up new issues. When you goto click on the icon to start Spaybot or another program like that, don't just click it, RIGHT click and then click on "Run as Administrator." That should work. Depending on what you do with it, may consider installing Ubuntu.

What new issues? The fact that you have to actually pay attention to what you install? I mean come on get real here if you're dumb enough to click on malware you're going to be dumb enough to hit the "OH YEA IT'S OKAY TO INSTALL THIS" button