Hello. I've had my laptop for a little over a year now, at for the first
couple months, everything worked fine..But now it seems I have no more
administrative powers. I'm the only account on the laptop however, and I've
never made any other accounts. Whenever I try to start a new ...

Like many of you I am new to Vista (Business).  I am trying to delete a file
and the system tells me I do not have the correct permissions.  I am the
Administrator.
What is the process to give myself the correct permission level; i.e. start

Does anyone know the registry setting to retain the run history when you go
to Start > Run?
It is clearing itself and I want to make sure it retains the history.
I know how to do it in the GUI, what I need is the registry key for this.

How does one formulate a query for help?  For instance, I would like to find
if there is information on the task manager page display, CPU useage.  
Normally (as in google/yahoo) I would type in :
"Task Manager" +"CPU usage" and get a search, but the quotes and everything

Here is the situation:
Mother got daughter laptop
Mother put in her name/password (presumably) upon initial boot
Laptop turned on/off (cold) several times with no problems

I bought 2 copies for 2 computers of Vista. I put the same license key for
both, by mistake, and they both registered, how do I go back in and change
one?

In order to get rid of the irritating check window that comes up so often, on
a single-user machine I have eliminated my user account, just staying as the
administrator.  That works fine but now I get a window opening at every
startup saying "Check  your User Account Settings."   ...

I'm using a laptop, running windows vista. A friend and I often share files
between us and when connecting to my computer via network he uses my username
and password to connect and take the files I have shared.
Ideally I would like him to click on my computer in the network then

I'm about to load my Student Edition 2003 to my new PC (Vista Home Premium).  
I want to load Office so that all Accounts we have on the PC (two right now
plus one or two more later).  Can I do this legally?  If so, I do I
"position" Office so it's accessible from all accounts.  I ...

I put this question in the wrong discussion group by mistake, so here it is
again, in the right one.
I can get Task Scheduler to display a message. However, if I am actually
USING

Office Standard 2007 on Vista Home Basic.
I want to publish my User2 calendar to my User3 calendar, but can't get past
the Windows Live ID sign in either for User2 or User3.  I've correctly
updated my User2 password, but it doesn't help. Neither does working it

Is there a way to send email to several people at one time withour showing
all  the addresses for a one time email. I kno3 I can use Bcc if everyone is
already in my address book bur can I do it without adding names in my address
book?

I am the sole user on my home computer and so I assume I'm also the
administrator, but when I edited a file inside a program and went to save the
file wordpad told me "access to c:\ProgramFiles etc... was denied" what I
want to know is why am I being denied access to my own files ...

How do I disable user accounts option?

i have vista ultimate and decided to try out the sleep function.
when i woke my system out of sleep my admin password no longer worked.
no new program installs, no password changes, nothing.
i did open a port for vuze but that's about it.