Re: Administrator doesn't have permissions to Windows Time Service?

On 5/19/10, Steven L. posted:
> I'm logged in as Administrator.

> I go into "Date and Time," select the tab "Internet Time," and then hit the
> button "Change settings..."

> And I get the error message
> "You do not have permission to perform this task.
> Please contact your computer administrator for help."

> But *I* am the administrator of this computer! I'm logged in as
> Administrator!

> Any ideas what's wrong with the permissions or something?



> -- Steven L.

Are you an administrator or *the* Administrator?

The account *named* Administrator has all privileges (or most). An
account of type administrator has a more limited set.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Gene E. Bloch" <> wrote:

> The account *named* Administrator has all privileges (or most). An account
> of type administrator has a more limited set.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but can you provide an example?

I *have* seen brain-dead setup programs that test for the built-in
"administrator" account and complain about insufficient privileges if any
other userid is current, but the only special characteristics of the
built-in Administrator account that I'm aware of are that it can't be locked
out, and it's subject to policy settings.

Note that in the newer flavors of Windows there are a number of resources
for which the access control list offers nothing more interesting than
"read" privileges to *any* userid capable of logging on interactively. I
ran into that with Windows 7 when I had to modify the built-in themes, all
of which by default quietly turn off the screensaver.

Joe Morris