Vista Permissions ... Home Premium

Hi,
I am a home user, and I am constantly frustrated by Vista's permissions. I
want to increase the disk space for "System Restore" (I am having so many
problems).

I got this off another site, "The utility to change the settings is a
command line utility called vssadmin. You'll have to open a command prompt
in administrator mode by entering cmd into the start menu and hitting
Ctrl+Shift+Enter, or right-clicking the command prompt and selecting Run as
Administrator." On my PC I only see two users. Me (admin) and Guest. When I
do as the above instructions, I am told in the cmd window that I need,
"elevated administrator priviledges".

How do I progress this?

Regards
Doug

Hi,

For elevated privileges, you simply right click the CMD prompt and use "run
as administrator". With Vista and user protection, this level of privilege
has to be specifically invoked, it is not automatic regardless of the user
account type. Linux has successfully used a similar structure for years. It
prevents any malware from using any account privileges to usurp a system
without the user's consent.

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"The Old Bloke" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
> I am a home user, and I am constantly frustrated by Vista's permissions. I
> want to increase the disk space for "System Restore" (I am having so many
> problems).
>
> I got this off another site, "The utility to change the settings is a
> command line utility called vssadmin. You'll have to open a command prompt
> in administrator mode by entering cmd into the start menu and hitting
> Ctrl+Shift+Enter, or right-clicking the command prompt and selecting Run
> as Administrator." On my PC I only see two users. Me (admin) and Guest.
> When I do as the above instructions, I am told in the cmd window that I
> need, "elevated administrator priviledges".
>
> How do I progress this?
>
> Regards
> Doug

The Old Bloke;356674 Wrote:
> Hi
> I am a home user, and I am constantly frustrated by Vista'
> permissions.
> want to increase the disk space for "System Restore" (I am having s
> man
> problems)
>
> I got this off another site, "The utility to change the settings is
> command line utility called vssadmin. You'll have to open a comman
> promp
> in administrator mode by entering cmd into the start menu and hittin
> Ctrl+Shift+Enter, or right-clicking the command prompt and selectin
> Run a
> Administrator." On my PC I only see two users. Me (admin) and Guest
> When
> do as the above instructions, I am told in the cmd window that I need
> "elevated administrator priviledges"
>
> How do I progress this
>
> Regard
> Dou

Hi Doug

Check at this link to see if you are doing the same steps for resizin
System Restore's size

Scroll down to this section
*::Change System Restore's Disk Usage Amount:::
*::::*
'http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html#post327286
(http://tinyurl.com/yqss6h

Hope this helps
Shaw

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"brink" <> wrote in message
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>
> The Old Bloke;356674 Wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am a home user, and I am constantly frustrated by Vista's
>> permissions. I
>> want to increase the disk space for "System Restore" (I am having so
>> many
>> problems).
>>
>> I got this off another site, "The utility to change the settings is a
>> command line utility called vssadmin. You'll have to open a command
>> prompt
>> in administrator mode by entering cmd into the start menu and hitting
>> Ctrl+Shift+Enter, or right-clicking the command prompt and selecting
>> Run as
>> Administrator." On my PC I only see two users. Me (admin) and Guest.
>> When I
>> do as the above instructions, I am told in the cmd window that I need,
>> "elevated administrator priviledges".
>>
>> How do I progress this?
>>
>> Regards
>> Doug
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> Check at this link to see if you are doing the same steps for resizing
> System Restore's size.
>
> Scroll down to this section:
> *::Change System Restore's Disk Usage Amount:::*
> *::::*
> 'http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html#post327286'
> (http://tinyurl.com/yqss6h)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
Hi Mate,

That link is the way I am doing it. But when I type the command at the DOS
prompt, I get the message that I need "elevated administrator priviledges".

Regards

The Old Bloke;357488 Wrote:
>
> Hi Mate,
>
> That link is the way I am doing it. But when I type the command at the
> DOS
> prompt, I get the message that I need "elevated administrator
> priviledges".
>
> Regards

Ok,

Go to this link and scroll down a bit to this section:
ELEVATE ADMINISTRATORS PRIVELEDGE LEVEL : (FOR ALL VERSIONS OF VISTA)
Then do the part for your version of Vista to show you how to elevate
your priveledge and try resizing System Restore then.

'http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/48893-user-account-control-uac.html?ltr=U'
(http://tinyurl.com/2velpl)

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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> Ok,
>
> Go to this link and scroll down a bit to this section:
> ELEVATE ADMINISTRATORS PRIVELEDGE LEVEL : (FOR ALL VERSIONS OF VISTA)
> Then do the part for your version of Vista to show you how to elevate
> your priveledge and try resizing System Restore then.
>
> 'http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/48893-user-account-control-uac.html?ltr=U'
> (http://tinyurl.com/2velpl)
>

This will not help the user in this particular situation.

They would need to either open the command prompt as administrator by
right-clicking it and clicking run as administrator, or disable uac
entirely.

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

"Jimmy Brush" <> wrote in message
news:...
>> Ok,
>>
>> Go to this link and scroll down a bit to this section:
>> ELEVATE ADMINISTRATORS PRIVELEDGE LEVEL : (FOR ALL VERSIONS OF VISTA)
>> Then do the part for your version of Vista to show you how to elevate
>> your priveledge and try resizing System Restore then.
>>
>> 'http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/48893-user-account-control-uac.html?ltr=U'
>> (http://tinyurl.com/2velpl)
>>
>
> This will not help the user in this particular situation.
>
> They would need to either open the command prompt as administrator by
> right-clicking it and clicking run as administrator, or disable uac
> entirely.
>
> --
Hi Mate,

I'm using Vista Home Premium. When I click on the Start icon, there is no
cmd. or "run" option. There is none in Accessories. So I can't right click
it. It's not there. The only way by clicking is to change back to the
"classic" menu and then I can get the "run" box.

Any advice?

Right-click the Start Menu > Properties> "Customize" button

Scroll down to " [ ] Run Command " and put a check in the box.

KB

"The Old Bloke" wrote in message news:...
> Hi Mate,
>
> I'm using Vista Home Premium. When I click on the Start icon, there is no
> cmd. or "run" option. There is none in Accessories. So I can't right
> click it. It's not there. The only way by clicking is to change back to
> the "classic" menu and then I can get the "run" box.
>
> Any advice?

"KristleBawl" <> wrote in message
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> Right-click the Start Menu > Properties> "Customize" button
>
> Scroll down to " [ ] Run Command " and put a check in the box.
>
> KB
>
> "The Old Bloke" wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi Mate,
>>
>> I'm using Vista Home Premium. When I click on the Start icon, there is
>> no cmd. or "run" option. There is none in Accessories. So I can't right
>> click it. It's not there. The only way by clicking is to change back to
>> the "classic" menu and then I can get the "run" box.
>>
>> Any advice?
>

Holy ****! It was that easy ....

Thanks

OK got that, but when I right click I don't get the option "run as
administator" Maybe because I am already an administator?

> I'm using Vista Home Premium. When I click on the Start icon, there
is no cmd. or "run" option. There is none in Accessories. So I can't
right click it. It's not there. The only way by clicking is to change
back to the "classic" menu and then I can get the "run" box.
>
> Any advice?

The box that says "start search" can be used to run programs.

Alternatively, there should be a link that says "command prompt" in your
accessories folder that you can use.

1- Type cmd.exe in the start search box
2- cmd.exe will appear in the list
3- right-click cmd.exe in the list
4- click run as administrator

or

1- Find command prompt in your start menu
2- right-click it
3- click run as administrator

In order to run command-line programs that require "admin" access to
your computer, you must run them from a command prompt that was started
as administrator using this method.

Running a program "as administrator" is called elevating that program.

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-JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/