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July 13

Windows 7 Administrator

I am running windows 7 on my PC. When I try to do a scan with my anti-virus software, it says I am not an Administrator. I am the only one who uses this computer and have no idea how to elevate myself to becoming an Administrator. Any help would be appreciated. 99.250.103.117 (talk) 00:42, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

If you have the only account on your computer, then you should be an admin already. You can read more about admin rights in Windows 7 here (how to change an account's status, etc.) Hope this helps! --Yellow1996 (talk) 01:21, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

When you open it, instead of double clicking: right click, select run as administrator, it will ask if you are sure, say yes. If this doesn't resolve it, you may have malware (or some other unwanted situation); if you do, I'd be willing to work with you to see about fixing things up.Phoenixia1177 (talk) 05:15, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

VisualSubSync Help

I am doing a subtitling job at the moment, and I am not entirely familiar with the software I have been requested to use. I have done a minute or so of this (short) video, but I would like to test it, to see if the subtitles are in the right place. Can anyone tell me how? KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 09:38, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

It looks like VisualSubSync will let you display the video in the editor (in the View menu, select Show/Hide Video), but I think it might only work if Windows can understand the video codec. Try it and see if the video shows up. If not, here are some ideas that might get it to work:

• Re-encode your video. When I tested an example video in VisualSubSync, the Show/Hide Video command didn't do anything. I used ffmpeg to re-encode the video to mpeg1, then VisualSubSync could display it. If your video is short (a few minutes), re-encoding might be reasonable. If your video is long, then re-encoding might take a long time.

• Install a codec? If your video doesn't show up in VisualSubSync, maybe installing a codec would help it display the video? In VLC Media Player, you can go to Tools, Codec Information to get information about the codec it's using, then perhaps you could search online for a matching Windows codec. Be aware, my understanding is that malicious codecs can contain malware, so carefully evaluate if you trust a codec source before installing it.

--Bavi H (talk) 17:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Additional: In the VisualSubSync menu bar, I went to ?, Help, Codecs installation, and it went to Installing codecs, which appears to have similar advice. --Bavi H (talk) 18:03, 13 July 2013 (UTC)