Administrators Account cannot install updates and programs (Administrator can)

From: John7 (NoSp_at_mm.com)
Date: 07/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:27:43 +0200

Hi,

A friend has an account (member of group Administrators) but cannot install
Windows updates or programs.
They abort with message "errors occured, will be terminated, logbook entry
will be created" (no error codes),
but logbook has no such entries ? #$^&*

The Administrator itself can install updates and programs flawlessly.

Any clues how to fix?

TIA,
John7

System: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 1GB, 120GB, Win2K + SP4 + all updates

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