Captivate 4 admin privileges gone

Hi: I have admin privileges on my own laptop, but I clicked Adobe Captivate too quickly and launched two windows simulanteously. The second window doesn't have admin privileges. I thought after closing both and shutting down, the application would revert back to admin privileges. No luck. So, I changed the properties of the icon to run as admin after a reboot. Still no luck. How can I have my admin privileges back? Many thanks in advance.

I think you are misunderstanding what is happening here.
This message is a default message that appears to let you know Captivate needs to be launched with Admin privileges. It's not necessarily indicating you don't currently have it set up that way.
Just tick the Don't Ask This Again box to get rid of this warning message.
If you've already set up the icon to launch Captivate with admin privileges you should be fine.

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All of a sudden, my user account "admin" privileges have gone away. I cannot add a user, nor change mine back to admin. So, I'm stuck.

Check these links
Windows 7: Built-in Administrator - Enable from WinRE
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/102552-built-administrator-enable-winre.html
What to do if you forget your Windows password
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-do-forget-windows-password#1TC=windows-7
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How can IT departments set up basic users to run Captivate with Administrator privileges?

As we all know, on WinVista and Win7 or later systems Adobe Captivate must be launched with Run As Administrator privileges in order to function correctly and not crash. But the problem here is that in many corporate environments general users are not allowed to have Administrator access to their own work PCs. This presents something of a dilemma for IT departments with Adobe Captivate users.
Some time ago on this forum one of the Adobe technical staff chimed in on a thread about the Run As Administrator command and explained the technical steps required to set up a Group Policy in WinVista/Win7 that would allow a basic user to always launch Captivate with the necessary admin privileges even though they did NOT have Administrator access to any other app on their PC.
I have searched in vain to find that particular thread and post, so I've started this thread in the hope that someone at Adobe can again chime in to detail the necessary steps again.
So is there anyone there that can help out?

DOH! my bad.....I/we run WinXP at present and no UAC.
However, all may not be lost, try some of these options as posted on teh MS Technet forums....An admin person may need t do this first to enable this for that user...
Apologies for misundeerstand situation. ;-( hate it when that happens!
Try these two options:
Using Compatibility Mode
NOTE: This will allow you to always have the program run as an administrator when you open it.
1. Right click on the program shortcut or program .exe file, then click on Properties, and on the Compatibility tab. (See screenshots below)
NOTE: If you are doing this while logged on as a standard user instead of an administrator, then you will need to also click on the Change settings for all users button and type in the administrator's password.
http://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12832d1243933304-run-administrator-compat ibility_mode1.jpghttp://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12832d1243933304-run-administrator-compat ibility_mode1.jpghttp://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12832d1243933304-run-administrator-compat ibility_mode1.jpgUAC, then click on Yes to apply permission to allow the program to run with full permission as an administrator.
2. To Always Run this Program as an Administrator
A) Check the Run this program as an administrator box, and click on OK. (See screenshots above)
3. To Not Always Run this Program as an Administrator
A) Uncheck the Run this program as an administrator box, and click on OK. (See screenshots below step 1)
4. Open the program.
5. If prompted by
NOTE: If you are doing this is while logged in as standard user instead of an administrator, then you will need to provide the administrator's password before the program will run as administrator.
Using Advanced Properties
NOTE: This will allow you to always have the program run as an administrator when you open it.
1. Right click on the shortcut of the program, then click on Properties.
2. Click on the Shortcut tab for a program shortcut, then cllick on the Advanced button. (See screenshot below)
http://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12834d1243933304-run-administrator-advanc ed_properties1a.jpghttp://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12834d1243933304-run-administrator-advanc ed_properties1a.jpghttp://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12834d1243933304-run-administrator-advanc ed_properties1a.jpghttp://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12836d1243933304-run-administrator-advanc ed_properties2.jpghttp://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12836d1243933304-run-administrator-advanc ed_properties2.jpghttp://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/12836d1243933304-run-administrator-advanc ed_properties2.jpgUAC, then click on Yes to apply permission to allow the program to run with full permission as an Administrator.
3. To Always Run this Program as an Administrator
A) Check the Run as administrator box, and click on OK. (See screenshot below)
4. To Not Always Run this Program as an Administrator
A) Uncheck the Run as administrator box, and click on OK. (See screenshot above)
5. Click on OK. (See screenshot below step 2)
6. Open the program.
7. If prompted by
NOTE: If you are doing this is while logged in as standard user instead of an administrator, then you will need to provide the administrator's password before the program will run as administrator

Migration closed 1/2 way through now cannot access any admin privileges

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when I ran the migration assistant it told me that the account that I wanted to move over had the same name as the account that is the admin account and asked if I waned to replace it and I selected yes. Now the bad part I did not tell my wife what I was doing and she came in half way into the migration and wanted to use the imac, she closed my ibook that was in the way and changed users.
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JTolman wrote:
… but their usernames/passwords still do not work for anything else such as the disk utility or running the install disk.
What? This is very strange. I'd like to look at some of your netinfo database. These commands will not change anything. Log in as one of the accounts you just gave admin privileges to.
Open the Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities) and copy and paste the following into the Terminal window, one line at a time, with a return after each line:
id
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nicl . read /users/`id -un`
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Message was edited by: Michael Conniff

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Again if you trust him then you should also trust him not to do what you don't want him to do. If you tell him he can do x but please don't do y and you think he won't abide by your rules then giving him any access is potential trouble.
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