Dell Studio 17, in Vista, I have made a new administrator account and it cannot access all programs as the first account could. How do I give the second account the first account's permissions?

Anonymous,
If you forget the administrator password and don't have a password reset disk or another administrator account, you won't be able to reset the password. If there are no other user accounts on the computer, you won't be able to log on to Windows and will need to re-install Windows.
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If you have another computer; try Ophcrack. Ophcrack is a free bootable program that finds passwords linked to local accounts; not those that are on domains. It does pretty well; most of the time - but not all the time. Additionally, it is free. But you have to burn it to disc. The download is in .iso format.

If that doesn't work, you may have to use a pay program to reset it. There are plenty of those out there that will work.

Hello,

Since you have reinstalled your Operating System, you will have to reinstall all the drivers for your devices and other functionality to work properly.

The best way to obtain the correct drivers for your new Operating System is to download them directly from the manufacturer's support website.

Go to the Dell Support website > Drivers & Downloads page.

Here is the direct link for your Dell Studio Laptop 1749 : Drivers & Downloads for Dell Studio Laptop 1749.

Select your Operating System and you will be able to download the correct drivers.

Hope this helps you.

Since this error seems to reference the "Windows Installer" which is separate from the Installshield engine, I would probably try updating that:
The error by Windows Installer Package happens in Windows Vista because the of custom actions set in the installer package fail with missing permissions, involving custom actions that scheduled for both immediate or deferred execution. Visual Studio custom actions run while impersonating the installing user but only run with standard user privilege, and not with elevated administrator privilege as required in Windows Vista, if the msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate bit is not set. Even though Windows Vista prompts for privilege elevation, however, only custom actions that are running in the Local System account get elevated correctly, while custom actions that impersonate as the current user do not.
Thus, the error usually happens on older versions of setup installer which install or uninstall programs meant for earlier versions of Windows operating system, such as XP, 2000, Me and 9x. However, if you're the programmer or developer for the installer program, probably you can do much to change the bit or installer sequence to solve the issue. But, there are still resolutions to fix the error 1721 that happens in Windows Vista, and probably has more than one one solutions or workarounds that users can try to get the software program installed.
Run an elevated command prompt with Run as Administrator option to start the installation
This method will probably allow most failed .msi installer to install/uninstall probably. Simply open an elevated command prompt with Run as Administrator setting, and then execute the .msi executable.

If you need more help come back.Post / thumbs / testimonial are welcome!

If it's this new, Dell can help you. It's under warranty and since you paid for it, you should use it.

Go into safe mode and enter through Admin account which is normally with out password

You may need to add yourself to a security group.Sometimes ,even an administrator may be denied access to a group,if she/he is not a member of that group. I had a similar situation myself a few months ago with Windows Vista,and it works the same in all operating systems,Vista, XP,Linux,MAC.

Are you using Vista or Xp?

If you are using xp the solution is quite simple.

Restart your computer and when the bootup shows up press F8. Now you should get a list of options including safe mode. Select safe mode. Now when xp shows up Administrator will be a profile. Enter your administrative password and log in. Now remove the program. Then try changing your main account to a standard user and then back to an administrator.

If you are using vista i found this was a bit more difficult, for i encountered the same problem. I created a new account and called it "Amin". Make the new account an administrator. Then log in with the new account and remove the problem. Vista has too many bugs in my opinion.

Hope i could help.

if you have another user account with administrator access you can either remove the password i the user account field or you can try accessing the files of that particular user account and transfer it and just erase the user account and create a new one. vista does not have any backdoor to access using the disk unlike xp

Try downloading / installing said software, whilst logged on to the administrator account. Having admin rights on your account is not the same as being logged onto the admin account.

Who knows why, but some programs on Vista require full access to the admin rights. Maybe Bill Gates can answer this one for us :)

Most 3rd party programs will also require full access to the admin rights also.