Run as Adninistrator

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Although I have played a bit with Windows 7 RC last year, I have no real experience with it.

Yesterday a friend of mine got a new laptop with Windows 7 (x64 Home Edition Premium), and I helped him to set it up. The W7 install went extremely quick, then we ran Microsoft Update and installed a few extras (MSE, JRE, Flash & Shockwave Player, Adobe Reader). All would install quickly, except for Adobe Reader, which would terminate with an error.

Thought I would try to run the downloaded installer as Administrator, but when right-clicking on the file, there was no such option.

Does anybody know how to run an executable 'as Administrator' on Windows 7?

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Why do we do this - ask a question in the forum, then do a Google search...? :P

Here is what I found http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html.

[jimv7]

To run as admin. Right click the install exe, from the drop down menu pick run as admin, also on the same menu is Trouble shoot compatibility.

[andsome]

To run as admin. Right click the install exe, from the drop down menu pick run as admin, also on the same menu is Trouble shoot compatibility.

That's what I do.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

That's what I was trying to do, but on my friend's Windows 7, there was no 'Run as Administrator' option on the right-click drop-down menu. So I was looking for another way to do it.

[andsome]

That's what I was trying to do, but on my friend's Windows 7, there was no 'Run as Administrator' option on the right-click drop-down menu. So I was looking for another way to do it.

I use Windows 7. On some programs there IS the option to run as administrator after a right click, but on others I get a message that tells me that I need administrator privileges to do what I want, I just click OK. Never had a problem.

[D4\/!d]

...and sometimes, with Win 7, after I have completed an Install of a new program using "Run as Administrator" I then get an error type message pop up.

I cannot now remember the wording. It goes something like Re-Install using correct something or other.

Have you any idea what I am talking about, you may if you have experienced he same message telling you to go through the installation all over again. :(

[andsome]

...and sometimes, with Win 7, after I have completed an Install of a new program using "Run as Administrator" I then get an error type message pop up.

I cannot now remember the wording. It goes something like Re-Install using correct something or other.

Have you any idea what I am talking about, you may if you have experienced he same message telling you to go through the installation all over again.

Never had any problems installing anything except O'Foto now. MS Office 2000 is not 100% but I can get round the slight difficulties.