[AccessD] Run Access 2007 as Administrator

Arthur,

<<It's not there when I click on the
start menu and select Access. >>

 When this happens with a program, the best thing to do is to open a CMD
window with admin privs (right click, run as admin), then start the program
in question from the command line.

 Now the problem is, I haven't worked with 8.1 yet, so I can't tell you
exactly how to do that<g>

<< Since I am the only user of this
computer, why am I not automatically the Administrator?>>

 This stems all the way back to Vista.  Even though you may be part of the
admins group, you don't automatically have admin rights.   

 Microsoft for years warned people not to continually use an account with
admin privs for normal operations.  However human nature being what it is,
people kept doing it (if you had an admin task, it was too much work to
logout of a normal account, login as an admin, do the task, then switch back
to the normal account).

 As a result of that, many mal-ware and virus's got foot holds into systems.
So Microsoft added UAC (User Access Control), which adds an extra step even
if your logged in as an admin.  You explicitly need to start things as an
admin process (the right click), or need to respond yes to things that
require admin level privs.  You don't get all of them by default.

 As of Windows 7, UAC could be disabled in which case it would be just like
it was pre Vista.  Not sure in windows 8.x

Jim.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 07:55 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Run Access 2007 as Administrator

I'm trying to install an Add-In and am receiving a message saying that I do
not have enough permissions. How do I:

a) run Access as Administrator? and/or
b) give myself Administrator permissions? and/or
c) restart/login as Administrator?

In many situations, I have right-clicked and found the "Run as
Administrator" command on the menu. It's not there when I click on the
start menu and select Access. I'm stumped. Since I am the only user of this
computer, why am I not automatically the Administrator?

Is this a "feature" of  Windows 8.1?

-- 
Arthur
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