Hi, I upgraded from vista to windows 7 about two months ago and now I am finding that some programmes will not let me carry out changes. When I try it says you must log on as an administrator. However, I have the only account on the laptop and it is an administrator account. What am I doing wrong?Cheers in Advancedamo

By default UAC (User Account Control) is active and that makes everything run as a standard user although it actually is an account with administrative priviliges. IT sounds as if there are application on your machine that does not work well with UAC. Run those applications with administrative priviliges (right click the shortcut or EXE file and choose "Run as administrator") to see if the problems goes away.

unfortunately not fixed the problem. One of the issues is making changes to the windows settings, if I try to change desktop gadget settings it says I am not an administrator

Okay, could you be a litte bit more specific on which gadget it is or what setting you are trying to change when you get the error message? Also what is the current UAC setting? If you just to try it turn off UAC and reboot, do you still see the problem?

I have now turned UAC but still a problem. Two specific times I can remember getting ghe message; if I try to add or remove desktop gadgets in control panel> personillze desktop trying to run certain functions of PGP desktop encryption ( shred unused space option) this programme is not new addition was in there pre upgrade. Damo

Hi, In order to troubleshoot the issue, I suggest you create a new admin account and log on to the machine with another admin account for a test. To create a new account, please refer to the following article: Create new account If there is any error message, please upload it Thanks, Novak

This is despite logging on as my current user account and trying generating a new one Damo

Ok, that sheds some light on the issue. Is this a domain joined machine? If so there might be a central group policy in affect that blocks the usage of gadgets. If the machine is just a machine that is not joined to a domain you can start "gpedit.msc" by searching for it in the start menu. Then go to Computer configuration > Administrative templates > Windows components > Desktop Gadgets and make sure that no settings are set (they should be not configured). Repeat the previous instructions but this time for the User configuration section. Specifically the settings "Turn off desktop gadgets" is what you should make sure is not set to enabled.

I have the same problem and i have no solution even doing as Adreas said... in my Vaio AR51SU I had before a Google Desktop and gadgets. I uninstalled google's softwares but the problem remains...So, I really have no solution for the MicrosoftWindows Gadgets bar, but I did this:I downloaded Google Desktop at the link http://desktop.google.com/en/enterprise/ and I installed it (in my case I reinstalled it). Now I have the gadgets in my gadget bar ou directly on my Desktop.P.S.: It works with Windows 7/Vista.

i have similar issues as damokeene. my computer is not a domain joined machine and running an administrator account. i am also getting the "Desktop Gadgets are managed by your system administrator message." i tried to check Group Policy settings using gpedit.msc but got the message "MMC could not create the snap-in." any advice? -Kyle