[Seltox]

My mother just got a new laptop from dell, and it came with Vista home basic on it.

I don't know how to use vista very well at all. Anyway, I tried to install photoshop on the computer, but it didn't work from the CD, so I copied all the info onto a folder on the hdd to try to install (this has worked before when Vista would not install off a cd). Unfortunately the install didn't work, and now we cannot delete the setup app. All the other files went away fine, but when I try to delete that application I get this error.

"You need permission to perform this action." I've heard a bit about Vista's permission problems and all of that, but I have no idea of how to fix them.
My mother is kinda annoyed about this. We can't move the file or folder, and I just pasted it into Documents, as I would be deleting it soon after.

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Hello, and welcome to Geeks To Go.
I must give credit for this to Psychposse for the following.

Even though you log in as an Admin with the account you have, it has limits. This is something Vista did to protect you from yourself. In other words, you don't have full administrator priveleges.

You can log on as a full admin a few different ways. One way is to simply unhide the true admin logon in a cmd.

click the start menu.
In the bottom search bar type cmd (don't hit enter)

cmd will show in the list on top .. right click on it and click to run as administrator

the command panel will open
type this command exactly as it appears here.. or just copy and paste it in the cmd panel

net user administrator /active:yes

hit enter and it should tell you it completed successfully.

close the cmd panel and log off of windows.

When you log back on you should have a new Admin log on.

Log on as admin and try to run your program that way.

It might be a good idea to keep your regular user logon and use that for normal functioning.
You might also want to create a password for the admin logon and only use that for technical purposes.

Thank you.

[hfcg]

Hello, and welcome to Geeks To Go.
I must give credit for this to Psychposse for the following.

Even though you log in as an Admin with the account you have, it has limits. This is something Vista did to protect you from yourself. In other words, you don't have full administrator priveleges.

You can log on as a full admin a few different ways. One way is to simply unhide the true admin logon in a cmd.

click the start menu.
In the bottom search bar type cmd (don't hit enter)

cmd will show in the list on top .. right click on it and click to run as administrator

the command panel will open
type this command exactly as it appears here.. or just copy and paste it in the cmd panel

net user administrator /active:yes

hit enter and it should tell you it completed successfully.

close the cmd panel and log off of windows.

When you log back on you should have a new Admin log on.

Log on as admin and try to run your program that way.

It might be a good idea to keep your regular user logon and use that for normal functioning.
You might also want to create a password for the admin logon and only use that for technical purposes.

Thank you.

[Seltox]

Sigh. I hate it when things do this, but this is what happened.

I went and tried to delete it and it just went away straight away. Silly Vista.

Thanks for your help anyway

[hfcg]

Things happen that way.