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Jane K
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      12-01-2007
I am/have an administrative account on a Vista Home Premium PC, but
the system says that access is denied went I attempt to reinstall my talk
talk broadband - as I am having issues with connection to the internet. The
disk on my XP machine worked and remembers where it has got to and continued.
However, I cannot even get the .exe ti start due to this message "You are
not logged into your computer as an Administrator. This installer requires
that the user be logged in as an Administrator. Please log out and log back
in as an Administrator, then restart the installer". How can I get round
this?

Kind regards and thanks for any help/advise given.

Jane
 
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Jane C
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      12-01-2007
Hello Jane,

Right-click on the installer .exe file and select 'Run as Administrator'.


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"Jane K" <> wrote in message
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>I am/have an administrative account on a Vista Home Premium PC, but
> the system says that access is denied went I attempt to reinstall my talk
> talk broadband - as I am having issues with connection to the internet.
> The
> disk on my XP machine worked and remembers where it has got to and
> continued.
> However, I cannot even get the .exe ti start due to this message "You are
> not logged into your computer as an Administrator. This installer
> requires
> that the user be logged in as an Administrator. Please log out and log
> back
> in as an Administrator, then restart the installer". How can I get round
> this?
>
> Kind regards and thanks for any help/advise given.
>
> Jane


 
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      12-02-2007

"Jane K" <> wrote in message
news:33E36C4A-DF58-4E61-AB62-...
>I am/have an administrative account on a Vista Home Premium PC, but
> the system says that access is denied went I attempt to reinstall my talk
> talk broadband - as I am having issues with connection to the internet.
> The
> disk on my XP machine worked and remembers where it has got to and
> continued.
> However, I cannot even get the .exe ti start due to this message "You are
> not logged into your computer as an Administrator. This installer
> requires
> that the user be logged in as an Administrator. Please log out and log
> back
> in as an Administrator, then restart the installer". How can I get round
> this?
>


Do you know what UAC is about?

A user with Admin rights is locked down on Vista and only has Standard user
rights in some cases. The user's rights sometimes even Admin rights have to
be escalated with Run As Administrator.

You can always turn UAC off and back on, but you should learn how to work
with UAC.

<http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/19/turn-off-or-disable-user-account-control-uac-in-windows-vista/>


 
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Jane K
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      12-02-2007
Thank you. I have tried my best at re-installing my talktalk broadband. It
connects but errors once in a while. I will speak to them tomorrow when they
are open. Diagnostics on the modem fails on ATM Connection Test.
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Kind regards and thanks for your help.

Jane


"Jane C" wrote:

> Hello Jane,
>
> Right-click on the installer .exe file and select 'Run as Administrator'.
>
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> "Jane K" <> wrote in message
> news:33E36C4A-DF58-4E61-AB62-...
> >I am/have an administrative account on a Vista Home Premium PC, but
> > the system says that access is denied went I attempt to reinstall my talk
> > talk broadband - as I am having issues with connection to the internet.
> > The
> > disk on my XP machine worked and remembers where it has got to and
> > continued.
> > However, I cannot even get the .exe ti start due to this message "You are
> > not logged into your computer as an Administrator. This installer
> > requires
> > that the user be logged in as an Administrator. Please log out and log
> > back
> > in as an Administrator, then restart the installer". How can I get round
> > this?
> >
> > Kind regards and thanks for any help/advise given.
> >
> > Jane

>

 
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Jane K
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      12-02-2007
Thank you. I have tried my best at re-installing my talktalk broadband now I
can get into the disk! It connects but errors once in a while. I will speak
to them tomorrow when they are open. Diagnostics on the modem fails on ATM
Connection Test.
--
Kind regards and thanks for your help.

Jane


"Mr. Arnold" wrote:

>
> "Jane K" <> wrote in message
> news:33E36C4A-DF58-4E61-AB62-...
> >I am/have an administrative account on a Vista Home Premium PC, but
> > the system says that access is denied went I attempt to reinstall my talk
> > talk broadband - as I am having issues with connection to the internet.
> > The
> > disk on my XP machine worked and remembers where it has got to and
> > continued.
> > However, I cannot even get the .exe ti start due to this message "You are
> > not logged into your computer as an Administrator. This installer
> > requires
> > that the user be logged in as an Administrator. Please log out and log
> > back
> > in as an Administrator, then restart the installer". How can I get round
> > this?
> >

>
> Do you know what UAC is about?
>
> A user with Admin rights is locked down on Vista and only has Standard user
> rights in some cases. The user's rights sometimes even Admin rights have to
> be escalated with Run As Administrator.
>
> You can always turn UAC off and back on, but you should learn how to work
> with UAC.
>
> <http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/19/turn-off-or-disable-user-account-control-uac-in-windows-vista/>
>
>
>

 
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