Vista - Administrator help!!

Ok, well I reformatted to XP Home, then upgraded to Vista Home Premium, but
I'm having a problem with administrator. There is only one account that I
have for Vista, it shows "administrator" under my log in name. I have not
messed with it, in a way to where it could mess up anything. But, when I go
to access my Nvidia Control Panel, it says I need to be the administrator and
I get something like 6 error boxes then it loads up the Nvidia Control Panel
and doesnt respond. I thought it was just Nvidia's drivers acting up. But
then I went to Command Prompt and typed in "defrag.exe" and it also said I
need to be the administrator. What is going on, I AM the administrator and I
am the only user and account for Vista. If anyone knows or has an idea on
what to do, then PLEASE tell me what I need to do.



-Thanks

Hope this may help. I was having trouble with getting onto the admin account
also and there was only one account showing up and that was the mine. I
contacted customer support for vista and got a reply from them saying that
when upgrading from xp to vista, sometimes vista only sees the one account
on xp and esp. if you only have one account set up and it is the default
admin account, vista automatically shuts down the system admin account and
makes your one account the main admin. they said the best way to check is to
restart and boot into safe mode. if at the login screen you only see your
one login and not your account and an admin account, then that means that
vista has disabled the default admin account and made your account the only
admin. if this is the case they said to visit the help page on vista and
type in admin account problems and read the report. also I was told to right
click on what ever you need and click to run as admin and that should take
care of it. don’t know if this will help but hope that it does.
Ken


"Chase Vaden" <Chase Vaden@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00A6F2B3-A966-4F3F-A26B-37C0651D9693@microsoft.com...
> Ok, well I reformatted to XP Home, then upgraded to Vista Home Premium,
> but
> I'm having a problem with administrator. There is only one account that I
> have for Vista, it shows "administrator" under my log in name. I have not
> messed with it, in a way to where it could mess up anything. But, when I
> go
> to access my Nvidia Control Panel, it says I need to be the administrator
> and
> I get something like 6 error boxes then it loads up the Nvidia Control
> Panel
> and doesnt respond. I thought it was just Nvidia's drivers acting up. But
> then I went to Command Prompt and typed in "defrag.exe" and it also said I
> need to be the administrator. What is going on, I AM the administrator and
> I
> am the only user and account for Vista. If anyone knows or has an idea on
> what to do, then PLEASE tell me what I need to do.
>
>
>
> -Thanks

--
Ken

Hello,

In Windows Vista, even though you are an administrator, only programs that
explicitly ask for your permission ("Windows needs your permission to
continue") or programs that you explicitly grant permission are allowed to
have admin access to the computer.

Programs that do not ask for permission or that you do not give access,
cannot use your administrator powers.

To manually give admin access to a program that does not ask for permission,
right-click it and click Run As Administrator.

You will need to do this for command prompts that you wish to run
administrator prompts from, as well as the version of the nvidia control
panel that you have, it seems.

Updating the software on your computer when they are made vista-compatible
should help with this problem, as Vista-compliant applications will prompt
you for permission when it is needed.


--
- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

Wow man, thanks a ton! I finally got it working!!! Your a life saver =D

"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In Windows Vista, even though you are an administrator, only programs that
> explicitly ask for your permission ("Windows needs your permission to
> continue") or programs that you explicitly grant permission are allowed to
> have admin access to the computer.
>
> Programs that do not ask for permission or that you do not give access,
> cannot use your administrator powers.
>
> To manually give admin access to a program that does not ask for permission,
> right-click it and click Run As Administrator.
>
> You will need to do this for command prompts that you wish to run
> administrator prompts from, as well as the version of the nvidia control
> panel that you have, it seems.
>
> Updating the software on your computer when they are made vista-compatible
> should help with this problem, as Vista-compliant applications will prompt
> you for permission when it is needed.
>
>
> --
> - JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>