Re: Help with "must be administrator to install"

From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 05/16/03

  • Next message: Ken Schaefer: "Re: Help with "must be administrator to install"" 
    Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 23:29:56 -0700

    .. how about trying a "run as" instead and leave you out of the admin
    group..... I run as power user and then do a "run as" to install software.

    Ken Schaefer wrote:

    > Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Users and Groups
    > Add your user account to the local administrators group
    >
    > (note you will either need to be logged in as an administrator to do
    > this -or- you will need to supply an appropriate username/password when
    > doing the actual adding as Windows will prompt you).
    >
    > If your account is in the local administrators group, then maybe there's
    > something wrong with the software. Consider downloading the latest version
    > from your vendor.
    >
    > Cheers
    > Ken
    >
    > "Bob" <seadogs@gulftel.com> wrote in message
    > news:bqk8cv4lbvrencp687serkjf6avls0jgbf@4ax.com...
    > : I just installed Win 2000 on a new machine....got everything up and
    > : running and all my programs installed and when I tried to install a
    > : new mouse driver I got the message "must be an administrator to
    > : install".........I must have done something wrong during the
    > : installation as I've never had this problem before. Is there any way
    > : that I can either name myself adminstrator or remove administrative
    > : control???? I hate to have to completely reinstall everything.
    > : Hoping maybe something in the registry could be changed. Any help
    > : would be greatly appreciated.
    > : Bob

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