Why does my computer say I need to be administrator, when I am?

why do i get this error?? Windows security...these files can't be opened...your internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened. Does it have to do with the administrator account?? I get this everytime i type something into the start menu serarch area...i had vista but upgraded to windows 7?? can you help??

Great help thanks a million! I was PO that I could not do things on my own computer.

Thank you. With "Administrator", can I turn off driver certificate requirements? I have BlazeDTV which works perfectly with XP, but 7 will not allow the drivers!!!

All of a sudden when I open e mail with attachments that I know, the email comes thru without the attachment available. Is it the sender?? or is it my email?? I use Windows mail. This started about one month ago.

I tried spybot and it would not delete 31 items saying I wasn't the administrator. Well I am. I find this very irritating .

Thanks VERY much! This issue was really perplexing and I could find nothing on the MS "help" venues. Now I can run Spybot again. :D

I'm with Keith. I was never so disappointed as when I had to abandon SpyBot because I didn't know how to be more of an administrator than I already was. I love SpyBot and now I can...again...and be an Administrator! Wow.

Brilliant. This problem has bedevilled me ever since I installed Vista O/S. Because I am a one user one machine man I always thought I was the Administrator but I now understand why I am not and what to do when I have similar problems in future. Well done Leo

This admistrator issue gave me so many headaches!! No more from now on!!Thanks Leo!! It was a great idea to subscribe to your newsletter!!!!

That's fine, if you Visa or 7; but what about XP? I tried what you suggested and it doesn't work that way. So what can I do because I have the same problem?

The concept doesn't apply to XP. In XP if you're logged in with an account that has administrative privilegess, then you have those all the time without asking. (That's the security issue that UAC fixes.) When logged in as an administrator you can assign administrative privileges to another account: How do I get administrative privileges on Windows XP?

10-Mar-2011