Vista administrator problem

[chaos16]

I am administarter. but when i go and play a game in Vista Home Premium it says u must be administartor when u run this application for the first time?

but i am administrator? wats the problem

[Franklin]

Have you tried right clicking the app and select "Run as Admin" from the context menu?

After I install Vista the first thing I do is to set the local security policy to show the full blown Admin account at reboot.

After I log into the admin account I delete the account you are forced to create at install then go about installing my security and maintenance apps.

Even then I can't delete some useless system files such as speech and language files so I implement the "Take Ownership" reg setting below which will add as such to the right click menu.

Works fine here but it's up to you if you want to try it.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas]
@="Take Ownership"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]
@="Take Ownership"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"