my computer says im not administrator(a lost in translation versio

im an exchange student in germany and i thought "hey to help with my german,
i should buy a german laptop" happenstance has it that i cant fix any
troubleshoots because ...i cant speak german. Ive installed a few programmes
but for some reason when i tried to install a certain programme, my computer
told me that i wasnt an administrator. Answers bitte

alostintranslationboy wrote:

> im an exchange student in germany and i thought "hey to help with my
> german, i should buy a german laptop" happenstance has it that i cant fix
> any
> troubleshoots because ...i cant speak german. Ive installed a few
> programmes but for some reason when i tried to install a certain
> programme, my computer told me that i wasnt an administrator. Answers
> bitte

You may be using an account that has administrative privileges (and really
you shouldn't be doing this in Vista - it's best practice to run as a
Standard user), but you aren't the root administrator. Here is a link
explaining this:

Changes to the built-in administrator account in Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=942956

Malke
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