Administrator but not Admin privelages?

[adam_chevyss]

I am the only user on vista and windows 7 and am the administrator but sometimes it says I need admin privelages to make changes to files, why is that?
To me I shouldn't have that problem since I am the only user and the Administrator.

[Steve R Jones]

What types of things are you doing when you get the message?

[adam_chevyss]

It happens every once in awhile, but I believe the last thing that caused it was when I installed Vista on an XP Partition and when I opened my computer and went to the C: drive there was the windows.old file from the xp install and I wanted to delete that folder and I was unable to because it said I needed admin. privelages.

[Steve R Jones]

Sounds like the system is trying to protect you from yourself

If I'm not mistaken, there is an option in Add/Remove programs to zap the rollback files.

[adam_chevyss]

There probably is that option, but it wasn't a big deal I just formatted the drive and started over but it just irritated me that I am the administrator but yet somehow I don't have full rights to my files.

[ua549]

The administrator does not have rights to all of the files and folders.
If you want those rights, you can add them.

[pwalker1]

I ran into the same problem I thought I could fix it by just changing the folder properties, but it still wouldn't let me get rid of it. How do you add these rights?

[ua549]

Folder Properties, Security, Advanced

First you must take ownership. That done, you can add/edit permissions.