Vista: "You need Administrator Privileges" - but only one user account!

Crabman

As if Vista isn't annoying me enough, I've tried to link a Motorola V3 RAZR phone via a USB cable. It tried to install then asked me to manually select a device. When I clicked Add, this came up:



Fair enough, but I've logged off and my user account is the only one available (no separate administrator account). Mine is an administrator account anyway - what's going on??

random456

mine does it a lot. whenever i run anything i right click and 'run as administrator'

Conor_3

Crabman wrote: »

As if Vista isn't annoying me enough, I've tried to link a Motorola V3 RAZR phone via a USB cable. It tried to install then asked me to manually select a device. When I clicked Add, this came up:



Fair enough, but I've logged off and my user account is the only one available (no separate administrator account). Mine is an administrator account anyway - what's going on??

That'll be Vista doing things the way XP should have. Basically programs now run in a user space where they can make no changes to system files or folders. If a program requries access to these, such as the one above, it asks for permission.

The good thing is that it means nothing can make serious changes, such as malware, without you being notified. This is where XP fell down as it'd let anything write wherever it wanted.