installing MS office

danh789

ok so im trying to install MS office on my laptop. when i put in the disk i click on install. then im told only administrators can install. whats the deal with that??

yoyo

Make sure you are a admininstrator and its not a shared laptop ie a college provided one

Nick

Sarn

Is this a work laptop by any chance? Often IT will not give you admin. rights if it is. Otherwise you just need to give your profile admin. rights.

(On the other hand the problem could be more fundamental, using the disk could solve it :P)

danh789

no its my own laptop and im logged onto my profile

Timans

danh789 wrote: »

ok so im trying to install MS office on my laptop. when i put in the dick i click on install. then im told only administrators can install. whats the deal with that??

Ouch, that has surely got to hurt?

Alanstrainor

danh789 wrote: »

ok so im trying to install MS office on my laptop. when i put in the dick i click on install.

:eek:

MunsterCycling

Vista or XP?

danh789

its vista and office 2007

dubfir

Try right clicking on setup and run as administrator

danh789

no that didnt work!

MunsterCycling

You will have to elevate your account to an admin, I'm surprised that the RUN AS didn't work, check the user accounts and tell us what type of acc it says you have?


MC

Gadgetman496

You could enable the hidden Administer Account & install Office through that for all users?

Enable Built-in Administrator Account
First you'll need to open a command prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and choosing "Run as administrator" (or use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut from the search box)

Now type the following command:
net user administrator /active:yes

You should see a message that the command completed successfully.

Log out, and you'll now see the Administrator account as a choice.

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