New PC, now my head hurts.

iadom · 18-08-2005, 00:31

New PC arrived today, what an absolute pain setting it up just right after four years on my old one. Several problems that I have managed to solve, one is proving a nuisance.
I burned my IE Favorites to a CD but when I try to import them into IE on my new PC I get a warning that I don't have administration rights to do so. PC is running XP Home, how do I get round this, I don't want to enter every one individually if I can help it.

Shaun · 18-08-2005, 00:47

If you go to control panel > users> then you need to work out which user has administrator privileges. Once that's done log on as them and set yourself up with admin privileges.

AndrewJ · 18-08-2005, 03:08

What new pc you got?

iadom · 18-08-2005, 10:36

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Originally Posted by Saxodriver

What new pc you got?

this one
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Originally Posted by Shaun

If you go to control panel > users> then you need to work out which user has administrator privileges. Once that's done log on as them and set yourself up with admin privileges.

I am set up as Administrator, it appears that I have full privileges, or do I need to do something else, I thought this was only needed on XP Pro????

Chris W · 18-08-2005, 10:38

You could try booting into safe mode and logging in as "Administrator" and trying from there.

Paul K · 18-08-2005, 10:38

Are you trying to import the favourites from the CD or are you moving them to the hard drive first? It might be that you need to shift them from the CD first as that could lead to complications.

AndrewJ · 18-08-2005, 10:45

Would it not be possible say he is a admin on his new pc thats final but was a admin on his old pc but with a passworded account, of which on a ntfs partition would put a protection on his files?

Hence moving them to another HD/computer even if as admin he copied them to cd on his old pc, because his new pc has not got the same credentials as the old one it refuses access?

Paul K · 18-08-2005, 11:01

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Originally Posted by Saxodriver

Would it not be possible say he is a admin on his new pc thats final but was a admin on his old pc but with a passworded account, of which on a ntfs partition would put a protection on his files?

Hence moving them to another HD/computer even if as admin he copied them to cd on his old pc, because his new pc has not got the same credentials as the old one it refuses access?

Shouldn't be an issue to be honest, I copy files to CD and use them elsewhere all the time. The only problem would be NTFS encryption if it were in use I would think.
Iadom, can you not just transfer that favourites file to a shared folder and access it there?

Stuart · 18-08-2005, 11:29

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Originally Posted by Saxodriver

Would it not be possible say he is a admin on his new pc thats final but was a admin on his old pc but with a passworded account, of which on a ntfs partition would put a protection on his files?

Hence moving them to another HD/computer even if as admin he copied them to cd on his old pc, because his new pc has not got the same credentials as the old one it refuses access?

I don't think you can use NTFS on CDs.. The ISO 9660 format the CD uses doesn't allow file security to be set.

Paul K · 18-08-2005, 11:37

Nope no NTFS on CD's and if you copy or move files onto a Non-NTFS location permissions would no longer apply as far as I can recall.

Gareth · 18-08-2005, 11:44

Why not just try manually copying them (assuming they're just standard *.url files on your CD) into your %userprofile%\Favorites directory? Then, when you launch IE, they'll appear automagically (IE just enumerates your list of favourites according to what files it sees in that directory anyway... the importing favourites function within IE is not really rocket science

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Raistlin · 18-08-2005, 11:44

If they were exported from IE on the old machine would that cause problems if he was using a different user name?

Try creating a new account on your new machine. Give it Administrator rights, and the same user name and password as you were using when you exported the file from the old machine.

Log in as that user and then try importing the files.

Paul K · 18-08-2005, 11:49

You can export just as a file, it's not locked to the user account name. It just creates a standard file that you can then import again. Must be something going on with the machine that he is saving the faves list from. I would export the list and attach it to an email to myself

Done it before to get my list to different remote PCs lol

budwieser · 18-08-2005, 16:04

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Originally Posted by iadom

New PC arrived today, what an absolute pain setting it up just right after four years on my old one. Several problems that I have managed to solve, one is proving a nuisance.
I burned my IE Favorites to a CD but when I try to import them into IE on my new PC I get a warning that I don't have administration rights to do so. PC is running XP Home, how do I get round this, I don't want to enter every one individually if I can help it.

Export them to Floppy and then Import them.

iadom · 18-08-2005, 18:32

I initially burnt them onto a CD, then transfered them to a folder on the new PC where they now sit with a lovely little Star icon but the darned thing won't let me import them. If I open the files they are all there and active.
No password protected accounts set up on either PC, when I bought the last PC four years ago which was also running XP Home, I had no problem importing them from an earlier Win 95 PC.