Account 'NAMED' Administrator vs. 'administrator rights' question

many amatuer radio programs do not work well if installed into Vista's
Programs directory.
Hence we have learned to not install that way but to specify a new directory
in C: or even better to install into D:.
this is what I do.

But some of the programs which have auto update features or upload and
download tons of data still get cranky.

One of the fellows said that most of these problems go away if you login
into an account named 'Administrator' and not into an account that just has
'administrator rights'.

So how do I create an account named 'administrator'????
Now that I already have my account set up?

please and thank you.

FireBrick wrote:

> many amatuer radio programs do not work well if installed into Vista's
> Programs directory.
> Hence we have learned to not install that way but to specify a new
> directory in C: or even better to install into D:.
> this is what I do.
>
> But some of the programs which have auto update features or upload and
> download tons of data still get cranky.
>
> One of the fellows said that most of these problems go away if you login
> into an account named 'Administrator' and not into an account that just
> has 'administrator rights'.
>
> So how do I create an account named 'administrator'????
> Now that I already have my account set up?

You don't. While the built-in Administrator account is disabled by default
in Vista, the error message you're getting from the older program is
because that program wasn't written for Vista and this is fallout. It isn't
because you need to be logged into an account called "Administrator". The
program is looking to be able to write to the file system and/or the
Registry where it is not permitted in Vista. You should definitely create
an extra user account with administrative privileges and be running daily
from a Standard account, but even if you log into the elevated account, I
suspect you'll still have issues with your software.

As you've learned to work around your software's limitations regarding
installation, experiment from within the program if you can change its
updating from automatic, change where it thinks it's installed, etc. A good
place to work on this would be on "amateur radio" (hams?) forums and/or
newsgroups.

Malke
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