I AM the administrator!

[sabrinav]

Hello.... I have Vista Home Premium insatalled on a Dell Inspiron 531. When I try to download a program, (like the upgrade for SpySweeper, or Roboform for example), in my C Drive, to Program Files, I get a message that tells me I can't do this - only the administrator can. It suggests a different folder to download to. I am the administrator! What can I do? Thank you.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:22:26 +0100, sabrinav
<sabrinav.3eiys2@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote:

>Hello.... I have Vista Home Premium insatalled on a Dell Inspiron 531.
>When I try to download a program, (like the upgrade for SpySweeper, or
>Roboform for example), in my C Drive, to Program Files, I get a message
>that tells me I can't do this - only the administrator can. It suggests
>a different folder to download to. I _am_ the administrator! What can
>I do? Thank you.

Don't download files to the Program Files folder. It gives Windows
fits when you try to do that.

You should have a "downloads" file in the same area as Documents,
Pictures etc. Or you can make a downloads directory somewhere else.

Just don't try to download to Program Files. When you install
programs, if that's where they are supposed to go, they will go there
without a problem.

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"DDW" <ddwright@KILLSPAMcomcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:22:26 +0100, sabrinav
> <sabrinav.3eiys2@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello.... I have Vista Home Premium insatalled on a Dell Inspiron 531.
> >When I try to download a program, (like the upgrade for SpySweeper, or
> >Roboform for example), in my C Drive, to Program Files, I get a message
> >that tells me I can't do this - only the administrator can. It suggests
> >a different folder to download to. I _am_ the administrator! What can
> >I do? Thank you.
>

Vista is trying to protect you from making a mistake -- that's a good thing.
You should always download a "program" into a user-created folder (mine is
"Z") that serves as a repository for such temporary files. From there you
can launch the actual installation of the program.

[sabrinav]

Thank you for your reply. That's what I did, and it worked great.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:22:11 -0500, "LoneStar"
<e_wyatt_rem_@excite.com> wrote:

>
>"DDW" <ddwright@KILLSPAMcomcast.net> wrote in message
>news:uunsa454bir75sncivsk4s11rm6880do49@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:22:26 +0100, sabrinav
>> <sabrinav.3eiys2@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Hello.... I have Vista Home Premium insatalled on a Dell Inspiron 531.
>> >When I try to download a program, (like the upgrade for SpySweeper, or
>> >Roboform for example), in my C Drive, to Program Files, I get a message
>> >that tells me I can't do this - only the administrator can. It suggests
>> >a different folder to download to. I _am_ the administrator! What can
>> >I do? Thank you.
>>
>
>Vista is trying to protect you from making a mistake -- that's a good thing.
>You should always download a "program" into a user-created folder (mine is
>"Z") that serves as a repository for such temporary files. From there you
>can launch the actual installation of the program.

You replied to me, not to the OP. I am not having that problem.

DDW
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What a noble thing to do, but why the f.... does the error message don't just
say that instead of given some blabla message that is not even related to the
problem.



"LoneStar" wrote:

>
> "DDW" <ddwright@KILLSPAMcomcast.net> wrote in message
> news:uunsa454bir75sncivsk4s11rm6880do49@4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:22:26 +0100, sabrinav
> > <sabrinav.3eiys2@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hello.... I have Vista Home Premium insatalled on a Dell Inspiron 531.
> > >When I try to download a program, (like the upgrade for SpySweeper, or
> > >Roboform for example), in my C Drive, to Program Files, I get a message
> > >that tells me I can't do this - only the administrator can. It suggests
> > >a different folder to download to. I _am_ the administrator! What can
> > >I do? Thank you.
> >
>
> Vista is trying to protect you from making a mistake -- that's a good thing.
> You should always download a "program" into a user-created folder (mine is
> "Z") that serves as a repository for such temporary files. From there you
> can launch the actual installation of the program.
>
>
>