Memory Settings: "Only users with administrative privilege can change these settings"

[moontear]

I want to change the above settings (VMWare Workstation 8.0.1, Win 7  64bit). I remember that I made some changes (I recently upgraded from Workstation 6.5 to 😎 to increase the performance by editing the config.ini file under C:\ProgramData\VMWare\VMware Workstation - which I reverted already.

Now my question is how I can re-enable this setting page. I am running Workstation as Administrator, frankly I don't even have another use on this developer machine, but the Administrator.

[continuum]

plan A: disable that UAC crap once and for all
plan B: start Workstation by right click "run as admin"

remember on Windows 7 the admin account is just another user with restricted rights unless you use "right click - run as admin"

[moontear]

As I said: I am admin. And of course UAC is disabled.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

you still need to open Workstation by right click "run as admin"

maybe the permissions for the config.ini are misconfigured ?

anyway - why dont you just edit the config.ini yourself ? - thats what I do

[moontear]

Thanks for your support! "Run as Administrator" did the trick.