Hi,
I return after some time!
Finally assembeld a new PC. Bought,at great expense,and installed win7 ultimate yesterday. Decided today to install Firefox. This is when I found out I am not in full controll. While installing I had not entered a Code word.I live alone and once or twice a year someone turns up,so felt not neccessary.
1.When I tried to download Firefox, Internet explorer gave me a choice to download to Drive C–user my name. I navigated to an externel drive and tried to save there and it told me that I had no authirity,so I navigated to C and tried to download there,same answer,lo and behold, user myname file is also on C!!!! So I asked it to Run the file,it did and installed Firefox.
My question is ,How do I become Administrator of my own computer?
Kindly bear in mind that I know very little and would require click by click instructions to be able to do whatever you want me to do.
Thanks in advance.
Hello wesi,
Let's have a look to see whether you are the Administrator or not. (It's possible that you're experiencing a different problem.)
Go to your Start Menu and click Control Panel . Change the view to "Large Icons" and click on "User Accounts".
On the right-hand side it should have your username and user display picture. Does it say "Administrator" underneath your name?
Cheers,
Nahumi: Thank you.
Yes it is Myname and below Administrator.
jcgriff2. Thank you.
No it NTFS,has been since day one a year ago.Worked fine with XP.
As I type I am listening to music stored on this disk.Windows media player had not had any problem playing music.
Firefox is installed.
Okay, well at least that's okay.
Go to your Start Menu, right-click on Internet Explorer and click on "Run as Administrator".
Then try downloading the file again, hopefully it doesn't give the error again.
Thank you.It woked but a new problem has cropped up .Please help.
After replying to your post I had shut down the pc.When I rebooted this time as soon the screen appeared it said "Device driver could not be installed". I was puzzled and could not find which device it was,well,talking about.
Just now,to test your advice,when I clicked on computer, the external drive was missing!!!
I took the usb jack out and put it in back.Same message about device drver not installed!! HDD's do not need a driver!!!!
What am I to do?
Thank you for your time.
Hello,
Problem solved. I tried off and on again the usb.This time I was told that my device needed to be replaced. I is oneTB and almost full with data.
I switched off the drve itself and a minute later switched on again.viola, it works.
Thank you very much for your help.
Well, every single component that's in your computer requires a device driver.
A driver is a low level bit of code that lets Windows know how it should use and interact with every single component, including your external HDD.
In most cases Windows uses a default driver to interact with HDD's. They all tend to behave in the same way, so it's usually a good bet that the driver will behave the same way too. Sometimes this goes wrong and you end up with a bug.
[EDIT : Ignore my last instructions]
Good to know that you fixed it.
