Bloatware and being locked out of adminstrative priveledges

Icalasari

Dammit Toshiba I don't want Norton!

At least going into Safemode let me get past that AND kill off the Toshiba bloatware as well

ClockworkUniverse

Wait, they didn't give you administrative priveleges? I've never had a computer block that off.

Icalasari

^ Some things I could just go, "Run as administrator"

You can't delete folders that way though, so it just goes, "Lolno you aren't an administrator," when I try to delete something like Norton's "Bug you at every start up until you try and then buy our product " program >.>

ClockworkUniverse

That's dickish.

Icalasari

Yeah. But at least safemode gave me the privileges (although I shouldn't have to go into safemode in the first place...)

Crimson

Can't you try a complete reformat/re-install windows?

ClockworkUniverse

^In my experience, they don't generally send you the windows install CD with a new computer.

delta534

There is usually an install image on a hidden partition, on the hard disk, of which you have burn a copy with the utilities that came with the laptop, to do a clean install.

The you don't have Admin rights issue I think is Windows 7's UAC acting up. I would figure out how to turn it off for the duration of setting up the computer. 

Icalasari

I turned off UAC. Guess that doesn't fully shut it off...

...And I already have everything moved onto this laptop. I am not doing a reinstalled, especially since it took hours just to get one batch of compressed stuff onto here. It would take days to get it back onto the old laptop, then days to get it back onto the new one

Central Avenue

My guess--and this is just a guess--is that if UAC is off and you don't have permission to edit/delete certain files, the file permissions are probably set wrong.

Icalasari

I guess

Either way, safe mode let me delete the offending files so