Do Not Have Permission

[Don]

I have Win7 Premium Edition installed. After I did an install from
scratch, I set up a root (administrator) account. And then I reduced my
user account to a standard privileges account. I was reading an article
by Bill Detwiler on TechRepublic,
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=2373&tag=nl.e064,
on how to deactivate and remove the hiberfil.sys file because I don't
need it. I booted my machine and logged into the administrator's
account. I opened the command console and entered the command as he
suggested, "powercfg.exe.exe -h off", minus the quotes. To my
surprise,the following message popped up.

"You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature."
I thought that an administrative account would allow you to perform
any system function that I wanted to do. This doesn't seem to be the
case, at least for me. Is there any way I can execute these sorts of
commands?

Thanks

 

[Dave-UK]

I have Win7 Premium Edition installed. After I did an install from
scratch, I set up a root (administrator) account. And then I reduced my
user account to a standard privileges account. I was reading an article
by Bill Detwiler on TechRepublic,
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=2373&tag=nl.e064,
on how to deactivate and remove the hiberfil.sys file because I don't
need it. I booted my machine and logged into the administrator's
account. I opened the command console and entered the command as he
suggested, "powercfg.exe.exe -h off", minus the quotes. To my
surprise,the following message popped up.

"You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature."
I thought that an administrative account would allow you to perform
any system function that I wanted to do. This doesn't seem to be the
case, at least for me. Is there any way I can execute these sorts of
commands?

Thanks

Right-click the Command Prompt and 'Run as administrator'.
An administrator account in Vista\Win7 runs with reduced privileges but can
be elevated when required (by the right-click menu, for example).

 

[Seth]

I have Win7 Premium Edition installed. After I did an install from
scratch, I set up a root (administrator) account. And then I reduced my
user account to a standard privileges account. I was reading an article by
Bill Detwiler on TechRepublic,
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=2373&tag=nl.e064, on
how to deactivate and remove the hiberfil.sys file because I don't need it.
I booted my machine and logged into the administrator's account. I opened
the command console and entered the command as he suggested,
"powercfg.exe.exe -h off", minus the quotes. To my surprise,the following
message popped up.

"You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature." I
thought that an administrative account would allow you to perform any
system function that I wanted to do. This doesn't seem to be the case, at
least for me. Is there any way I can execute these sorts of commands?

With UAC turned on, even an admin level account is not running with admin
privileges unless you elevate the process.

Hit the Start orb, in search type CMD. CMD should appear at the top of the
search results window. Right click on it and choose "Run as Administrator".
Confirm the UAC prompt.

Now try your command.

As an aside, if you are leaving UAC on (which is a good thing) then you
don't really need the 2 accounts anymore. You can just have your "regular"
account in the administrator group. When logged in with that account, you
are logged in as a standard user until you attempt to do something
administrative and UAC will ask for confirmation before allowing you to
proceed.

 

[Don]

Right-click the Command Prompt and 'Run as administrator'.
An administrator account in Vista\Win7 runs with reduced privileges but can
be elevated when required (by the right-click menu, for example).

Thanks, it worked. It isn't a well documented feature. I guess it was
intended that way so the average user doesn't screw up their machine.

 

[Dave-UK]

Thanks, it worked. It isn't a well documented feature. I guess it was
intended that way so the average user doesn't screw up their machine.

The XP-equivalent Administrator account is disabled by default in Win7.
You can have an account that is part of the administrators group but it
runs as a standard user account until it needs to be elevated and then
you will be prompted (if you have UAC turned on).
To have a look at the accounts:
Right-click Computer > Manage > Local Users and Groups > Users.
You will see your account(s), the Guest account and the built-in Administrator
account. Double-click on that and you will see it's disabled and it's
described as 'Built-in account for administering the computer/domain'.
If you ever want to activate the Administrator account you can do it from here.