Admin. rights in Windows 7

[morland]

Hi,

I have Win7 installed and the PC already has 3 accounts (2 of which have Admin rights). I want to install various software in such a manner so that all existing accounts will have access to that software rather than installing the software individually by logging into the existing accounts.

Can someone kindly help.

Thanks.

[morland]

OMG. Made a big blunder but hope there is some solution. And i just checked and the last restore point is 3 days old...

By mistake and while logged in with another administrator account, I deleted a Windows account of another administrator. Is there any way to undo and recover the deleted account.

Please hlp. OMG, what was I thinking

Edited April 7, 2010 by morland

[Tripredacus]

The old way was to install programs with Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. However now in Windows 7, the Programs and Features cpl does not have an option to install a program. Either that or I missed it.

[morland]

Hi Tripredacus,

Well I'm learning Windows 7 and paid a BIG price for that but in all fairness it wa my mistake. I thought I was deleting some other account and kept clicking yes on the notifications/warnings and ended up loosing all the data associated with that profile. Tried a tool called Recova or something like that but no luck. Ended up restoring from the last available restore point that was available (3 days old).

Wonder how I can increase (but only slightly) the frequency of Windows 7 automatically creating a restore point.

[Tripredacus]

OK since either you replied to the wrong topic or these two issues are related. I merged your two topics into one.

Which account did you delete? The hidden Administrator account?

[morland]

Thanks for merging and my apologies. I don't know what a hidden Administrator Account is or how to access it (in XP or in Windows 7). I was just logged in with another Admin. account and that's how I ended by deleting the other Admin account.

[MrJinje]

Can create restore point with vbs - source here.

Untested. I assume this will work on 7 just the same as XP - Report back if it doesn't.

Create_Restore_Point.vbs

Set IRP = getobject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore")

MYRP = IRP.createrestorepoint ("My Restore Point", 0, 100)

You may want to play with it to change the "My Restore Point" text to something more meaningful.

[morland]

Appreciate your reply and help MrJinje. I have given up on that and just restored from the last available restore point.