Hi guys…
I am struggling to install bitcomet to my brand new PC windows 7 at my new office. it keep prompt me that the username and password invalid and it says “the requested operation requires elevation”. please help me?
You need to be logged in on a user account with administrator access to install software. If you were, it would ask you to confirm an administrative action, instead of the message your getting.
As far as logging into comet ID, it sounds like your username or password is wrong, but this isn’t required to use bitcomet, so lets deal with one thing at a time.
I believe it’s the administrator ID and password that he’s being prompted for, in order to obtain elevation for the installer process without having to log off from the current account.
So, all he needs is the credentials for an admin account to input into the fileds of the box which pops up or to log into that account from the beginning of the session, in order to install BC.
before you instal, yu right click run as administrator
before you instal, yu right click run as administrator
You cannot run “as administrator” if your user account is not an administrator account.
To clarify what I’m saying here, if you have a user account on a computer where you do not have an administrator account, then you cannot perform administrator functions. This is the reason for user account controls.
For example, if you are an employee trying to install bitcomet on a computer owned by your employer, then your user account may not permit you to do so.
TUUS, I don’t have a copy of Win 7 (installed) at hand now but AFAIK you actually can do that.
That’s the whole purpose of that menu, to allow you to obtain elevation for a specific action from within a user account that’s running with limited privileges.
Why would you ever need to “run as admin” anything from an admin account? It defeats it’s purpose, since you’re already logged in as admin.
Wiz, you can indeed do that, but only if you have an admin account.
Also, running a program “as admin” and running it from an admin account are two different levels of security. Even if your logged in as the administrator, your tasks won’t be elevated unless you select to “run as admin”. In some cases it will prompt you to do so, but some tasks won’t perform if you don’t select to “run as admin” when you launch it.