Privileges in Windows 7 2

[OfficeAnimal]

W7 seems to have a thing about privileges. I cannot remember having to set MS Word to "Run as Administrator" under any other O/S, and that is not the only application I have had to treat that way. (Before I did that to Word it could not save templates, for example.)

Another little issue on a similar mode, one the rears its head regularly, is the inability to delete folders because of insufficient privileges, or that I require permission from my Administrator or a Trusted User.

At the moment I have some suspicion as to the health of my hard drive so I went to the Command Line and entered
chkdsk c: /F
I received this message in reply:
"Access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode.

FTR: I am using Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8,0GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics
MS Windows 7 Home Premium v. 6.1 64-bit SP1
I have Kaspersky Internet Security 2014, and I have Google Talk, Skype, and Memeo Backup Premium Pro running in the background.

I am the only user of this machine and have Administrator's rights.

Has anyone a way to tell W7 that I am the boss! and this machine revolves around ME!

Oh, BTW, How do I run the DOS command chkdsk c: /F in elevated mode?

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[flyboytim]

Right click and make a New, Shortcut on the desktop, and type in cmd(cmd.exe), click Next it should find the command prompt and make the shortcut. Right click the shortcut icon and select Properties.
Click Advanced, then check Run as Administrator, Ok, Ok, and you now hav an elevated command prompt.

If you need to run anything as an administrator often, make an elevated privileges shortcut in the same way.

You can use the properties to change the icon for the shortcut instead of the default, and for the Command Prompt, you can change the way the Command console looks - background, font, size, text colour etc.- this helps you to remember that you have extra privileges, when to do something without thinking may have awkward consequences!

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Thanks flyboytim - that fixed that! However, ...


I was also interested in the initial question:

I am the only user of this machine and have Administrator's rights.

Has anyone a way to tell W7 that I am the boss! and this machine revolves around ME!

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[Nelviticus]

If Word can't save templates without being run as Administrator that's probably because it's trying to save them to the wrong place - one that, by default, you don't have write access to. You can check Word's default file locations via File/Options/Advanced, then scroll to the end and click 'File Locations' (that's for Word 2010, for other versions it might be somewhere else).

If you want to be able to do anything you like without restriction you can turn off User Account Control (UAC) by following this guide from Microsoft. However this also means that any malicious process which has slipped through your security will also have complete freedom to do whatever it likes. That's why turning off UAC is a Bad Idea.

Nelviticus

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Thanks Nelviticus, but I have checked out the file locations and that was not the problem.
It is not just Word that does funny things. Sometimes, and I mean only sometimes, Autodesk Inventor refuses to save files (you have to get crafty to trick it into working). There are other packages that do similar things.

I have UAC set to "Notify me" after a string of problems I am, mercifully, able to forget. It's a bit annoying okaying the actions of packages but it is better than what went before.

I have come to the conclusion that this behaviour is something to do with W7, and the number of times issues of this sort appear on forums like this consolidates my suspicion. We need an O/S guru here!

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)