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11-Sep-2007, 07:14 PM #1
Deleting Files on Vista
I downloaded some music files and a couple of them were corrupt, I tried to delete them to the recycle bin, but got an error message "you need permission to perform this action" can anyone tell me either how I get permission or why its doing what its doing and how to stop it?
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11-Sep-2007, 07:57 PM #2
First blush answer: Vista accepts different levels of login. If you are the 'administrator' you have all powers. You can set up other user accounts to have less authority than administrator. It sounds from your brief description of your problem as if you are logged in as a user without admnistrator privileges, and the system is telling you you can't delete without administrator privileges.
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11-Sep-2007, 08:00 PM #3
Thanks for that, but do you have any idea as to how I would go about setting this up, or increasing the powers of my existing log on?
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12-Sep-2007, 12:15 AM #4
If yours is the only user then it already is admin, if not then you need to go to the admin account if you have access to it. Then click the start menu and type user, and click user accounts at the top. Click the link that says "Manage another account". Click on the account you want to change, and go to the link that says "Change account type". Switch it to admin and there you have it. You're and administrator.

Of course you could just go to the admin account then delete the files without having to do all this, but you could need this later so you should probably do it anyway.
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