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11-20-2008
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| | uninstall administrator priveleges When trying to uninstall Incredimail from control panel I get this message. You need to have Administrator or Power User priveleges in order to uninstall Incredimail. For assistance, contact your System Administrator. Under users it shows my account as the administrator account. It is a home computer so there isn't a System Administrator. Is there a way to get around this to uninstall the program? -- Walt |
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11-20-2008
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| | Re: uninstall administrator priveleges Try logging in as the full Administrator then try removing the application. Click start > type CMD, right click it, click 'Run as Administrator' at the command prompt type: Net user administrator /active:yes log out and log into it and remove the application. To disable the Administrator account, log back into your regular account, follow the same procedures to open CMD and type back the following at the command prompt Net user administrator /active:no -- Best regards, Andre Da Costa http://adacosta.spaces.live.com "Walter Goldschmidt" <wgold@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:gg54ks$uol$1@xxxxxx Quote: > When trying to uninstall Incredimail from control panel I get this > message. > > You need to have Administrator or Power User priveleges in order to > uninstall Incredimail. For assistance, contact your System Administrator. > Under users it shows my account as the administrator account. It is a home > computer so there isn't a System Administrator. Is there a way to get > around this to uninstall the program? > > -- > Walt |
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11-21-2008
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| | Re: uninstall administrator priveleges Thanks for your reply, I thought there was a way. "Andre Da Costa" <andred25@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ubUl$83SJHA.5244@xxxxxx Quote: > Try logging in as the full Administrator then try removing the > application. > Click start > type CMD, right click it, click 'Run as Administrator' > > at the command prompt type: Net user administrator /active:yes > > log out and log into it and remove the application. To disable the > Administrator account, log back into your regular account, follow the same > procedures to open CMD and type back the following at the command prompt > > Net user administrator /active:no > -- > Best regards, > Andre Da Costa > http://adacosta.spaces.live.com > > "Walter Goldschmidt" <wgold@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:gg54ks$uol$1@xxxxxx Quote: >> When trying to uninstall Incredimail from control panel I get this >> message. >> >> You need to have Administrator or Power User priveleges in order to >> uninstall Incredimail. For assistance, contact your System Administrator. >> Under users it shows my account as the administrator account. It is a >> home computer so there isn't a System Administrator. Is there a way to >> get around this to uninstall the program? >> >> -- >> Walt > |
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