I own a Toshiba laptop, and I'm the administrator of my own computer (duh).
But for some reason, I can't open folders My Music, My Video, and My
Pictures. When I try to open, the message says that the folder is not
accessible, therefore access denied. I'm logged in as the admin, ...

My brother has been in hospital for nine months after brain surgery and now
that he is convalesing in a nursing home we have taken his PC in  for him to
use. The problem is that it will no longer recognise his password and he
cannot log on. No one has changed it so we don't know ...

I am trying to install Adobe Photoshop Starter Edition, I have the unlock
code, but when I enter it, I receive a message saying I need to be the
Adminstrator.  I am the only user on the computer and it is set up as
Adminstrator.

Do I have to have an acct. name and password or can I just start or restart
without name or password? I'm the owner/administrator and the only person who
can even get to this puter.
Vista Home Premium

I own a dell laptop and I am the administrator of the computer. I
thought it might be a good idea to also make a guest account for family
or friends that don't know my password. After I activated the guest
account i logged off to see if the account worked. sure enough, it did,

I am the only user of a PC with Vista Premium Home. I therefore did not
install any account except the administrator's, as I have no need of a
specific login.
Anyway I am often stopped buy a message " You do not have the permission to

My computer is the family one, with two different user accounts. I use
programs that the other user never touches, and vice versa. When I delete a
shorcut icon on my desktop, it dissapears from the other user's as well, when
I add one, ect ect.... Is there a way to stop this ...

Do all users have to share the same desktop icons? We both share laptop but
have completley different needs..must we see each others on our personal
desktop page ?

I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either
directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post,
I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how to
use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn ...

I'm running Vista Home Premium, and I'm the sole user, so my account is
administrator. When I go to user accounts to manage another user account to
add, nothing happens. No error message, no bottlenecking mouse circle,
nothing. Can anyone help. I just want to add a new standard ...

Is there any way to get into the administrator account without the password
reset disk or reinstalling windows because, my mom changed the password and
doesnt remember it and i do not know what to do. If anyone can help me please
let me know.

im using a win vista ultimate
iam the administrator of this OS
the problem is . i ave changed permissions to the object drive C:/
and denied fullcontrol to administrator user i mean myslef unknowingly,

I'm currently using Vista Home Premium with 1 admin account and 1 guest
account.
Sadly when I went to change my password for my admin account, I was
prompted saying that my password was unable to be changed. I thought

After much searching and reading everything in here, i finally searched
outside and found the answer.
Short version:
1) Click 'Start'

OS = Vista Home Premium
When I try to run Windows update manually, I receive the following error;
Windows could not search for new updates, along with error Code 800F080D.
I have widnows update set to receive and install automatically.