No Administrative Priviledges

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-A690 and I recently performed a clean install of
Windows Vista Ultimate. The past few days have been spent locating drivers
and installing programs. Shortly after the clean install I intalled two
programs: Norton Internet Security and Trend Micro Anti-Spyware. The versions
I installed were Vista compatible. Now whenever I start up my pc Trend Micro
says that I do not have Administrator priviledges, but when I look under user
accounts it clearly says that I am the administrator since there are no other
users on my pc.

Could you please help me with this issue?

Thanks,

Jay wrote:
> I have a Sony Vaio VGN-A690 and I recently performed a clean install of
> Windows Vista Ultimate. The past few days have been spent locating drivers
> and installing programs. Shortly after the clean install I intalled two
> programs: Norton Internet Security and Trend Micro Anti-Spyware. The versions
> I installed were Vista compatible. Now whenever I start up my pc Trend Micro
> says that I do not have Administrator priviledges, but when I look under user
> accounts it clearly says that I am the administrator since there are no other
> users on my pc.
>
> Could you please help me with this issue?
>
> Thanks,


It sounds as if the Trend Micro Product is not truly Vista-compatible,
and is trying to access an area that Vista's default security doesn't
allow. As a test, try briefly disabling the User Account Control (UAC)
to see if the application then stops giving that error. If the error
stops, you'll know that the application isn't really Vista-compatible,
despite its maker's claims.

Control Panel > Security Center > Other Security Settings


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Bruce thank you for your help. That was the exact problem. Once I disabled my
UAC it worked fine without the error message.

Jay

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

> Jay wrote:
> > I have a Sony Vaio VGN-A690 and I recently performed a clean install of
> > Windows Vista Ultimate. The past few days have been spent locating drivers
> > and installing programs. Shortly after the clean install I intalled two
> > programs: Norton Internet Security and Trend Micro Anti-Spyware. The versions
> > I installed were Vista compatible. Now whenever I start up my pc Trend Micro
> > says that I do not have Administrator priviledges, but when I look under user
> > accounts it clearly says that I am the administrator since there are no other
> > users on my pc.
> >
> > Could you please help me with this issue?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
>
> It sounds as if the Trend Micro Product is not truly Vista-compatible,
> and is trying to access an area that Vista's default security doesn't
> allow. As a test, try briefly disabling the User Account Control (UAC)
> to see if the application then stops giving that error. If the error
> stops, you'll know that the application isn't really Vista-compatible,
> despite its maker's claims.
>
> Control Panel > Security Center > Other Security Settings
>
>
> --
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> Help us help you:
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
>
> Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
>

Jay wrote:
> Bruce thank you for your help. That was the exact problem. Once I disabled my
> UAC it worked fine without the error message.
>

You're welcome. Hopefully, Trend Micro will someday fix the bug in
their product that forces one to compromise security to use it. It
seems awfully ironic that a security/privacy application would have such
a glaring flaw.


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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell