T.J.

Jasper wrote:

How do you log on as the Administrator on Vista anyway? The account is
disabled and hidden from the logon screen. Did you re-enable it and unhide
it
from the logon screen? That's a lot of work to go through to break the
security of the system. In fact, if you did that, I don't think you would
have this problem that you are describing anyway, because that account is
not
subject to UAC if I recall correctly.

Oh, I guess I am lost. No I am not that intelligent to break that kind of
stuff LOL nor do I have time to even see if it is possible. ROFL I log on
with the screen that came up after installation. It only asked me for my
password & nothing more. I assumed it was the Administrator, but I
apparently am wrong. Ok then so I have an account with Administrator
privileges?

I have transferred all the files. Now if I reformat it & want to use it,
will it allow me to? Or, is there something special I need to do? I am
sorry, I am lost I guess. All this time I thought I was logging in as
Administrator, but I guess I am logging in as me, LOL with Administrator
privileges.

TJ


"Jesper" <Jesper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D183BB0-8F8E-42F1-819D-DEF333F71DE4@microsoft.com...
>> I have only one account set up on my computers because I am the only one
>> that uses then, RE: Administrator. Am I in need of creating another
>> account?
>
> No. Your account is an administrator, that's fine.
>
>> No it not the main hard drive, it is an external drive that has all my
>> download files on it since 1999 that are important as I use them daily or
>> weekly
>
> No worries then.
>
>> So, I have gotten into the hard drive to access the folder & sub-folders.
>> I
>> want to take full control of this hard drive. If I need to set up an
>> account to do this & go through all this, I can, but I prefer always
>> logging
>> in as Administrator as I need to be logged in as Administrator for all my
>> daily tasks on each computer.
>
> You should not log on as THE Administrator. That account is disabled on
> Vista, and should remain so. You may log on as AN administrator, i.e. an
> account that is a member of the Administrators group. BTW, unless your
> daily
> tasks involve debugging kernel mode drivers or something to that effect I
> doubt they require you to be logged on as an administrator.
>
>>I got away with it in XP Pro & never ran into any kind of
>> problems, LOL especially as this hard drive issue.
>
> Well, you are running into it now. It is not really related to what
> account
> you used on XP Pro though.
>
>> Once files are all transferred I want to reformat it & transfer them
>> back,
>> but firstly I need to take full control of the hard drive to do this. I
>> prefer it in Administrator as that is what I log in as everyday.
>
> How do you log on as the Administrator on Vista anyway? The account is
> disabled and hidden from the logon screen. Did you re-enable it and unhide
> it
> from the logon screen? That's a lot of work to go through to break the
> security of the system. In fact, if you did that, I don't think you would
> have this problem that you are describing anyway, because that account is
> not
> subject to UAC if I recall correctly.
>
>> Apparently
>> from reading what you have written it is necessary for me to create
>> another
>> account?
>
> No, in any case, you would not need another account to fix this. You can
> give whatever account you are using full control over the files. Heck,
> since
> you are going to wipe the drive anyway, just give Everyone Full Control
> over
> it. That would definitely let you access the files to move them off and it
> wouldn't hurt anything.