Vista - Re: Administrator's privileges

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:54:03 -0700, Charlie Stump <Charlie
Stump@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My email program tells me I need administrator privileges to set it as default.
>When I run gpedit.mcs it tells me that vista can not find it. I understand
>that I need to run it to get full administrator's rights. I am running vist
>home premium on a new gateway computer. thank for any help you can give me.
>Charlie

NOTE that you will never be able to find gpedit.msc on Vista Home Premium. It
is not available to users of Home Premium -- only Business and above.

IF you were by some chance to find it in an obscure subfolder of an obscure
subfolder of "Windows\System32", opening it would result in a message
somewhere along the lines of "This module is not available to users of Vista
Home Premium. See the Network Administrator...."

"Computer Administrator" no longer means what it used to, apparently.

Donald L McDaniel
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Hi Donald

Just for information, The MMC tools have never been available on any Home
version of Windows. They are primarily a tool for Domain Administrators and
these versions cannot join a domain.

However, these versions can use registry settings as an alternative to
achieve many (but not all) of the options in GPedit or SecPol.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Donald L McDaniel" <orthocross@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:54:03 -0700, Charlie Stump <Charlie
> Stump@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>My email program tells me I need administrator privileges to set it as
>>default.
>>When I run gpedit.mcs it tells me that vista can not find it. I understand
>>that I need to run it to get full administrator's rights. I am running
>>vist
>>home premium on a new gateway computer. thank for any help you can give
>>me.
>>Charlie
>
> NOTE that you will never be able to find gpedit.msc on Vista Home Premium.
> It
> is not available to users of Home Premium -- only Business and above.
>
> IF you were by some chance to find it in an obscure subfolder of an
> obscure
> subfolder of "Windows\System32", opening it would result in a message
> somewhere along the lines of "This module is not available to users of
> Vista
> Home Premium. See the Network Administrator...."
>
> "Computer Administrator" no longer means what it used to, apparently.
>
> Donald L McDaniel
> Please reply to the original thread and message.
> =====================================================