No place to enter administrator password

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When the "need your permission to continue" box comes up there is no place to
enter the administrator password. What do I do? I cannot delete programs or
load programs, this is VERY frustrating! Please help.
 
When the "need your permission to continue" box comes up there is
no place to enter the administrator password. What do I do? I
cannot delete programs or load programs, this is VERY
frustrating! Please help.
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Can you log onto the new administrator account at start-up? How many
accounts have you set up, and is the first one you did set up still
in the administrator group?
 
When I do regular start up my administrator account does not show up, all the
accounts are standard user. I can get into the admin account if I go in
through safemode. This is what I did to set up the password for the admin
account when I originally had the "no place to enter admin password" problem.
So now I have the password, there is just no place to enter it.
Incidentally, I tried to delete a program and load microsoft 2003 when I was
in the administrator account in safemode, but that would not work either. I
am baffled! Thanks for your help.
 
When I do regular start up my administrator account does not show
up, all the accounts are standard user. I can get into the admin
account if I go in through safemode.
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Sounds like the only account with the right level of privileges is
the 'Administrator' account, which is apparently disabled by design
to start with at any rate. And it has no password unless you
explicitly set one. In your case, can't you elevate the privileges
of one of the user accounts (using the Administrator account
somehow) so that you can switch easily to that one for day-to-day
admin tasks?

Maybe MSFT changed this Aministrator/administrator/standard user
account management system through the beta phases of development,
it's hard to find a decent write-up on the detail. A lot of the
books seem confused and vary in their understanding, which doesn't
help either.
 
Uhaligani

You want to be careful when you change the default account that your using
for your everyday account. If you have set up all of your installed programs
with one account and then change to another account, some of the programs
may not run properly because they were installed as another user.
 
It is pretty expicitly documented in the Microsoft forums.I can't even get to this step! I found lusrmgr - [Local Users and Groups
(Local)] and the word Administrator doesn't even appear on the screen. It
tells me "This computer is running Windows Vista Home Premium. This snapin
may not be used with this version of Windows. To manage user accounts for
this computer, use the User Accounts tool in the control panel."
My question is, how? Vista won't let me install certain softwares because I
"lack administrator privileges." When I right-clicked on the icon and went to
Properties/Privilege level, I clicked on Run this program as an
administrator, so it installed, but now I can't remove it!
 
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