- RE: Administrator problems on personal laptop
- Posted by Mr Mike on November 11th, 2005
Yes you can disable the account in computer management but before you do that
make sure you have admin rights on that machine, since you bought it on ebay
i would change the admin pw first before you disable the account. Doing that
wont stop you from getting the error.
"edhalfdead" wrote:
> Is there any way to disable admin on my laptop? I have a Dell Latitude D300
> with xp pro that I got from ebay. When I try to download certain programs
> (Adobe Reader, Windows Update,etc...) I get "You need to be sighned on as
> administrator". When I do I get the same message.
> Help, I can't finish my online schooling without Adobe Reader. Thanks...ed
> --
> To ere is human...and well, I''m human
>
> Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
- Posted by edhalfdead on November 12th, 2005
Mr Mike, Thanks for the quick response. OK, I might be a little dense tonight
but what is admin pw?
--
To ere is human...and well, I''''''''m human
Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
"Mr Mike" wrote:
> Yes you can disable the account in computer management but before you do that
> make sure you have admin rights on that machine, since you bought it on ebay
> i would change the admin pw first before you disable the account. Doing that
> wont stop you from getting the error.
>
> "edhalfdead" wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to disable admin on my laptop? I have a Dell Latitude D300
> > with xp pro that I got from ebay. When I try to download certain programs
> > (Adobe Reader, Windows Update,etc...) I get "You need to be sighned on as
> > administrator". When I do I get the same message.
> > Help, I can't finish my online schooling without Adobe Reader. Thanks...ed
> > --
> > To ere is human...and well, I''m human
> >
> > Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
- Posted by Richard in AZ on November 12th, 2005
admin pw = admistrator password
"edhalfdead" <edhalfdead@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:28D8BC7A-8CDD-48FB-8049-A304B23FFCCB@microsoft.com...
> Mr Mike, Thanks for the quick response. OK, I might be a little dense
> tonight
> but what is admin pw?
> --
> To ere is human...and well, I''''''''m human
>
> Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
>
>
> "Mr Mike" wrote:
>
>> Yes you can disable the account in computer management but before you do
>> that
>> make sure you have admin rights on that machine, since you bought it on
>> ebay
>> i would change the admin pw first before you disable the account. Doing
>> that
>> wont stop you from getting the error.
>>
>> "edhalfdead" wrote:
>>
>> > Is there any way to disable admin on my laptop? I have a Dell Latitude
>> > D300
>> > with xp pro that I got from ebay. When I try to download certain
>> > programs
>> > (Adobe Reader, Windows Update,etc...) I get "You need to be sighned on
>> > as
>> > administrator". When I do I get the same message.
>> > Help, I can't finish my online schooling without Adobe Reader.
>> > Thanks...ed
>> > --
>> > To ere is human...and well, I''m human
>> >
>> > Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
- Posted by edhalfdead on November 15th, 2005
Thanks Richard. Any ideas on what may be the problem?
--
To ere is human...and well, I''''''''m human
Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
"Richard in AZ" wrote:
> admin pw = admistrator password
>
> "edhalfdead" <edhalfdead@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:28D8BC7A-8CDD-48FB-8049-A304B23FFCCB@microsoft.com...
> > Mr Mike, Thanks for the quick response. OK, I might be a little dense
> > tonight
> > but what is admin pw?
> > --
> > To ere is human...and well, I''''''''m human
> >
> > Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
> >
> >
> > "Mr Mike" wrote:
> >
> >> Yes you can disable the account in computer management but before you do
> >> that
> >> make sure you have admin rights on that machine, since you bought it on
> >> ebay
> >> i would change the admin pw first before you disable the account. Doing
> >> that
> >> wont stop you from getting the error.
> >>
> >> "edhalfdead" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is there any way to disable admin on my laptop? I have a Dell Latitude
> >> > D300
> >> > with xp pro that I got from ebay. When I try to download certain
> >> > programs
> >> > (Adobe Reader, Windows Update,etc...) I get "You need to be sighned on
> >> > as
> >> > administrator". When I do I get the same message.
> >> > Help, I can't finish my online schooling without Adobe Reader.
> >> > Thanks...ed
> >> > --
> >> > To ere is human...and well, I''m human
> >> >
> >> > Jesus saves...He passes to Gretski. He shoots...SCORES!!!
>
>
>
