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Answer» In that case, we've been wasting time here. You need to contact IT department.all I wanted to know is when is an administrator account not really and administrator account
it's not an IT dept issue.
There is no reason to fiddle with work computer, since it's not even your property.
Certainly, we can't help you here.I'm not fiddling with it
all I wanted to know is when is an administrator account not really and administrator account
all this has to do with is page defrag from sysinternals
which when run says "...must be run from an admin. account"
but in User accounts it says the accounts are in the Administrators group
If it is a work PC that came without a CD then don't you have a hidden restore on the thing to make a one time BACKUP disk....MUMBLE,mumble,
mumble........Where is it at ?Does your IT know? ?there's C: which is 100GB and a small a 39MB partition but that certainly couldn't contain an entire copy of windows and the REST of the pre-installed junk
I don't think there's an issue here.
Your getting a prompt for administrator privileges since you are not an administrator of the computer, if you are using a network login, and if that network login isnt configured to be an administrator, then no matter what the local computer accounts say they are, your not an administrator, and you can not run programs that require administrator privledges.
Programs that access anything under Windows that need modify and write capabilities, and sometimes under Program Files, and programs that are programmed to run only with Administrator will not run under a regular user account.
You may be able to run the Windows Disk Defragmenter, located under:
Start> All Programs/Programs> Accessories> System Tools.
Page Defrag does a few THINGS your administrator wouldent want you to do:
Adds a pre-Windows-Boot startup item (common for viruses, thus restricted)
Accesses, and modifies the Registry file, and the pagefile. ALSO common of viruses, and thus restricted.
If you want special software installed, you do need to contact your IT Department, and ask them to make you an administrator of your work computer, or ask them to install it for you.
You have ADMIN rights on the machine...
However they are LIMITED because it's not your machine...
This is when an Admin account is NOT REALLY an Admin account.Quote from: Richard FDisk on November 30, 2008, 12:16:18 PM I'm not fiddling with it
all I wanted to know is when is an administrator account not really and administrator account
If you're not dealing with Vista, and the computer is not joined to a domain, then the answer is "none of the time." If a user account is in the "Administrators" group, then it's an administrator.
However, since this is a work PC, it's probably joined to a domain, in which your LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR account is not a DOMAIN ADMINISTRATOR account.
Quoteall this has to do with is page defrag from sysinternals
which when run says "...must be run from an admin. account"
but in User accounts it says the accounts are in the Administrators group
You shouldn't be running stuff on a work PC without the permission of the powers to be. Even if it is a sysinternals utility.
Contact your work IT department with your request. If they feel it's important, they'll grant your user account the appropriate rights (of course you have to be connected to the work network first for the new settings to take effect).
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