I have a brand new (purchased in May) Dell PC with Vista Premium. Since it
is a family computer, I set up each user (husband, teenaged daughter, and
self) with administrater accounts so we would all have full access.
Nevertheless, we continue to have issues with downloading, installing, or
updating certain software and sometimes with trying to uninstall programs
we've decided to get rid of; we frequently receive the dreaded Error message:
"You have insufficient privileges to modify this file." I have then gone in
and tried to change the privileges to try to give at least myself full access
to whatever file we're trying to modify, since I am by default the
(self-taught) "techie" for the family. This sometimes works, sometimes does
not. The latest most annoying problem in this regard is with I-tunes. The
version on the computer, which we tranferred from our old computer, needs
updating, but Vista wouldn't allow it. I then tried to broaden the access
privileges, and was unsuccessful. I can't seem to find any way to get Vista
to allow updating on this file. Does anybody know how to resolve this
problem for I-tunes in particular and for the system overall, since it is a
recurring problem?
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