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    Bios Update VS admin Priveleges??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ahmednagy5, Jun 6, 2007.

  1. ahmednagy5

    ahmednagy5 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i want to upgrade my Bios To F.16,he tells me i need administrator previleges,need to be logged on as administrator,although i am the administrator,it is the only account on the Laptop,i have upgraded Bios before to F.06 it was normal i dunno why it refuses and tells this administrator thing this time, i tried creating other administrator accounts and tried the safe mode with admin logging thing with other admin account still same thing asks for administrator previleges so to update,so what can i do.

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    ahmednagy5, Jun 6, 2007
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    Are you using Vista? If so then you may have to right click on the file and actually say "Run as Administrator" for it to work. I had to do that with my recent BIOS upgrade for my Vista laptop. Hope this helps.
     
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    no man i am using XP Home!!any ideas what to do?
     
    ahmednagy5, Jun 6, 2007
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