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Only an administrator can elevate your permission level to Admin. If you are not the Admin, log into the Admin account, click on the user icon at the top of the Start menu, click on "Manager Another Account" click on the one you want to change and select "Change Account type". Finally select Administrator and click Save.

Computer administrators have access to make certain changes on a computer that other users may not have.

Administrators have full freedom to install and uninstall programs, move files around and make changes to the Windows registry.

There are actually three ways that one may become the administrator on their computer; during the initial setup, change the settings in the Control Panel or by having the current administrator change the permissions on the account.

Set up an account during the initial setup of Windows on the computer.

During the setup wizard, you will be asked to set up an administrator account.
Choose the account name, user icon and password to set up the administrator account.

Step 1.
Change your account permissions if there isn't an administrator account currently setup.
During some installations Windows users were allowed to install the program without setting up an administrator account.

Click on "Start" then "Control Panel" to open the Control Panel.

Click on "Users and Accounts" or "Users Accounts and Family Safety".
Click on "User Accounts."

Click on "Add or remove user accounts" then "create a new account".

Assign the new account administrative privileges, a user name and password.
Click "OK" and close all windows. Log in under the new Administrator account.

Have the current administrator change your account privileges from "User" to "Administrator". She can do this by following the same steps described in Step 1.

Instead of creating a new account, she must click on your current account and then apply the new permissions.

If you do not currently have an account on the computer, she will need to create you one.

How to Disable the Local Administrator Account on Windows XPNote Before you disable the local Administrator account, make sure that there is at least one other local or network user who can gain access to the computer with administrator permissions. Otherwise, you will not be able to reverse this action in the future.

1. Log on as Administrator, or as a user with administrator permissions.
2. Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
3. In the left pane, expand the Local Users and Groups node, and then click Users.
4. In the right pane, double-click the Administrator account.
5. On the General tab, select the Account is disabled check box, and then click OK.
6. Quit the Computer Management console. The new setting takes effect the next time you attempt to log on to this computer.

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281140

Computer administrators have access to make certain changes on a computer that other users may not have. Administrators have full freedom to install and uninstall programs, move files around and make changes to the Windows registry. There are actually three ways that one may become the administrator on their computer; during the initial setup, change the settings in the Control Panel or by having the current administrator change the permissions on the account.

Set up an account during the initial setup of Windows on the computer. During the setup wizard, you will be asked to set up an administrator account. Choose the account name, user icon and password to set up the administrator account. Step 2.Change your account permissions if there isn't an administrator account currently setup. During some installations Windows users were allowed to install the program without setting up an administrator account. Click on "Start" then "Control Panel" to open the Control Panel. Click on "Users and Accounts" or "Users Accounts and Family Safety". Click on "User Accounts." Click on "Add or remove user accounts" then "create a new account". Assign the new account administrative privileges, a user name and password. Click "OK" and close all windows. Log in under the new Administrator account. Have the current administrator change your account privileges from "User" to "Administrator". She can do this by following the same steps described in Step 2. Instead of creating a new account, she must click on your current account and then apply the new permissions. If you do not currently have an account on the computer, she will need to create you one.
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Very strange.

Do you get any error messages?
Are you able to download the programmes?

Vista works differently to previous versions of Windows, because of much improved protection. In essence you can no longer install programmes anywhere you want and you can no longer install programmes unless you have permission to do so.

There is a service called UAC which stands for User Access Control, which prevents normal users from installing software - only administrators are allowed to install software.

Even if you are the only user, you are not regarded as the administrator unless you say I am the admin.

When you click on something to download, at the top of the page a small wide yellow box will appear, right click on it and download the file.

Then when you run the installer another box will open asking if it can make the changes you want - you may need to give your password to continue.

Then install everything as their defaults. and all should be well.

Some older programmes do have problems - download them and SAVE then to your documents, then right click on the installer - you have a number of new options...

Run as Administrator (which may solve your problems)

Trouble shoot compatibility - which can resolve some older programme problems - you can set the system up to emulate Windows XP etc... which will solve most problems.

And if the installation fails it will ask if you want to re-install using default settings - say yes.

Finally, make sure you are downloading Vista compatible software and that it is the right software for your Operating system. You can not install 64bit (x64) software on a 32 bit (x86) machine.

If this helps you at all please vote!

right click on my computer icon then click on manage then go to user and groups management.
Then select your user whose you want to change password.
then rightclick user and reset password if you want reset.

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First off,The admin account in vista is hidden,It has to be enabled before it shows up at all.
Second The problem is with the permission on your computer.(You may have a virus that changed them)


Also,Can you boot into safe mode? (this is done by tapping the F8 key while booting)

You should be able to unless he has specifically set rules against this. I am the IT guy for my company and they can burn DVDs and lightscribe.
Slap your IT guy around is the fix for this one.

I'm not an expert in Crystal Reports, however you might find my info and experiences to be of some use with your question. I've been working with VB6.0 for some time. One day I decided to checkout Visual Studio 2008, (which came with crystal reports) I decided I didn't like it and removed it from my computer. It was after the removal of crystal reports that my computer went to hell. Every program I tried to install since it's removal was not being allowed, also every program I tried to uninstall was not being allowed. After some research I found out that Crystal Reports was the culprit. It has a management package that was designed to protect it's rights management. Simply stated.....it was governing parts of my registry by setting certain parts of my registry key permissions to, "read only". I ended up having to use the administrative tool in Windows XP and reloading default permissions through an existing INF file thus resetting every registry key back to it's default read/write state. I would not recommend you do this. Doing so may harm your existing install of Crystal Reports. What I would do though if I was in your situation, would be to change just the one key that pertains to your .tmp file location in regedit. My guess is it would be located HKLM under software. You can change any key permissions by simply right clicking any key and go to, "permissions" However, if i'm guessing right, Crystal Reports has a backup mech. that would not allow you to change the key permissions even in regedit. In wich case you'll have to use a utility like ::.HERE.:: and create a custom bat file for just that one key. You can try contacting Crystal Reports directly but i'm quite sure they'll just tell you to kindly, "get bent" lol. This method of protection serves no purpose other then to protect their software from being pirated. So i'm 99% sure they won't help you in the matter that you need. Changing permissions to registry keys back to default would negate their program protective measures. From the problem you described i'm 90% sure that is exactly what is going on due to what I already know about the protection measures of Crystal Reports. Any file that is being generated with Crystal Reports, temp or otherwise is now governed by Crystal Reports through your registry, through a registry like firewall, also run by Crystal Reports. This is why you're getting Access Denied when you try to right click the file and delete it locally. You have two options.

1.) Become submissive and a slave to their tech support and wait for them to come up with a solution that will allow them to maintain control over your registry, with a patch of some sort provided by either Microsft Visual Studio or through Crystal Reports directly that will resolve your particular issue.

2.) Setup a dummy computer install all the crystal reports programs on it. Get it all setup, then do a full registry reset (from that link i posted above) and see if you can still use crystal reports after the full registry reset and if that truely resolves all the access conflicts. If so then apply it your main work machine and once again become the master of your registry.

Hope that helps,

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Are you on a corperate network?

Do you have CD Burning Software?

Are you allowed to make critical changes to the system?

If you can their is a cd you can boot from that will fix the password problem :)