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  • 06-08-2011 7:34am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭


    morning all,
    i bought myself a new laptop - Acer - and am trying to move all my software across - i am looking to put a microsoft office disk on it and its saying i need administrator rights / access to do this - i am the only user and have been the only one on the machine since i got it - is there a way of giving myself this right

    as always thanks in advance

    clare


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    /Let me get this straight. Do you have the Office disk, and are you trying to install the software from scratch? You should be able to right click on the Setup.exe and click the "Run as administrator" if this is the case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    /Let me get this straight. Do you have the Office disk, and are you trying to install the software from scratch? You should be able to right click on the Setup.exe and click the "Run as administrator" if this is the case.
    Odd one this? The original account when you turn on a new laptop is an admin account isin't it.

    OP (Clare) Click Start-->Control Panel-->User Accounts.....look around in there, ideally you want two accounts, a Standard User one for everyday use and the Admin one that you put a password on and when ever you try and install stuff a box will pop up looking for the password.

    You set it up this way to help prevent dodgy websites from installing stuff in the background.

    As far as I can remember though you have to set up the standard user Account so you should already be in an admin Account:confused:

    Set up this Standard User Account before you do anything else, when you have it done, install all your programs on to this Account, not the admin one.

    If you have trouble, re-install windows because the Program Privileges are probably all messed up.


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