No place to enter administrator password

When the "need your permission to continue" box comes up there is no place to
enter the administrator password. What do I do? I cannot delete programs or
load programs, this is VERY frustrating! Please help.
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New to Vista

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:42:03 -0700, BINGO wrote:
Can you log onto the new administrator account at start-up? How many
accounts have you set up, and is the first one you did set up still
in the administrator group?

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Chris Game

"GoogleBar?? I could eat them all day !!" -- Grimly Fiendish

When I do regular start up my administrator account does not show up, all the
accounts are standard user. I can get into the admin account if I go in
through safemode. This is what I did to set up the password for the admin
account when I originally had the "no place to enter admin password" problem.
So now I have the password, there is just no place to enter it.
Incidentally, I tried to delete a program and load microsoft 2003 when I was
in the administrator account in safemode, but that would not work either. I
am baffled! Thanks for your help.
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New to Vista


"Chris Game" wrote:

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:20:01 -0700, BINGO wrote:
Sounds like the only account with the right level of privileges is
the 'Administrator' account, which is apparently disabled by design
to start with at any rate. And it has no password unless you
explicitly set one. In your case, can't you elevate the privileges
of one of the user accounts (using the Administrator account
somehow) so that you can switch easily to that one for day-to-day
admin tasks?

Maybe MSFT changed this Aministrator/administrator/standard user
account management system through the beta phases of development,
it's hard to find a decent write-up on the detail. A lot of the
books seem confused and vary in their understanding, which doesn't
help either.

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Chris Game

'Calm down -- it's only ones and zeros.'

It is pretty expicitly documented in the Microsoft forums.
If you want to setup a proper "Power" administrator account do this:
In the RUN box type Control Userpasswords2
Go to advanced and then advanced again. Select "Users" and then Administrator enable the Admin account. Back out and logout. You will now have the option to login (permanently) as the true Adminstrator.

Uhaligani

You want to be careful when you change the default account that your using
for your everyday account. If you have set up all of your installed programs
with one account and then change to another account, some of the programs
may not run properly because they were installed as another user.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"uhaligani" <uhaligani.2xxcw4@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Thank you Ronnie. I'm not sure what your point is though. I am pretty familiar with Vista and computers in general. On installation, way back in the early Beta days, the first practice was to activate the Administrator account and delete the imposed user account/Administrator. This gave me more freedom for testing and is what I have always been used to since the early Windows days, as have most users, without realising it.
I am aware of the alleged increased exposure to attack and , again, have always taken care of my own security, without help from Microsoft's built in products.My security centre is disabled, as is Defender and the Firewall. I have them all backed up by other means. My modus operandii, which, as I said, I have used for many years, has allowed, over that time, two average level virus attacks.Spyware and Spam have sometimes sneaked in, but not at a worrying level.