Vista - Please help me achieve Nirvana (Administrator rights) on this laptop

WHP, working beautifully in every respect.

However, I've just installed XdN Tweaker and would like
to exploit some of its functions, but Vista says, "Must
have Administrator privileges".

Please help me achieve that exalted status - permanently.

Thanks,

Ike

Hi,

You can't, at least not until the application is rewritten to function under
Vista properly. It is likely trying to write to the program folder rather
than the user's virtual appdata folder. To do so requires elevated
privileges that cannot be invoked automatically. For now, run the
application by right clicking the icon and using 'run as administrator'. Or,
right click the icon and choose properties and enable the option to always
run elevated. Both will still require that you acknowledge the UAC prompt.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Ike" <binarydotike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well...yes you can achive total adminisratorship. My systems are set that way now. I can do anything and Vista will let me. Of course I have been using MS products for a LLLooooonnnnnggggggg time (ouch!). And taking full control like this is dangerous. If I did'nt have the experience I could fry my crap real fast. Home premium makes doing this a little harder then ultimate but you can take full ownership and grant yourself full rights in properties option of your C drive. Go to computer and right click on your c drive an select properties at the bottom. In there you can change ownership of the drive and grant full permission to any user. Turning UAC off helps as well. But be careful! Keep your firewall up and use a good antivirus like NOD32 and use anti spyware software like spybot or a-squared. And it is better to let someone with serious knowhow setup such a configuration. Mine would be considered a big fubar to setup for a unseasoned user.