Originally Posted by tim_han

Hi,

I've had a problem for a while now with my Vista Ultimate 32bit. It is the Upgrade version. A few months ago I had to do a reinstall, so I had to install vista, then reinstall it to register with my key.

Since this time, I don't have full admin privilidges (yes, I understand no one really does with Vista, but this is different ). I had a problem where my recovery software wouldn't see the drives. The vendor's support team figured out that for some reason, my account isn't working correctly and I had to do "Run as Administrator" to get the software to see my drives.

Now I am trying to get another application to work and it "stops working" every time I run it. No online solution was found. If I "Run as Administrator", the program works fine. It is a file utility (NameWiz 4.11) and it has a context menu, and that is really what I need working.

Any ideas how I can actually run as an administrator?

A while ago, I did try creating another account and then removing my account's administrator's priviledges and then readding them and that did not help.

Thanks for any help!

Hello Tim_Han,

You can use Compatibility Mode with the programs shortcut or EXE file. This tutorial will show you how to if needed. Step 4 will show you how to have the program "Run as administrator" all of the time without having to right click on it everytime you want to run it.

Compatibility Mode


You can enable the built-in Administrator account and log on to it when you want full access. However, everything you run while logged on in this account will have full access also. This tutorial will show you how to if needed.

Administrator Account

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Your welcome Tim_Han.

Shawn