Re: Access denied. Program not recognizing administrator privileges.

From: Brad (lykspittle@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/23/02 

From: "Brad" <lykspittle@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 22:38:54 -0600

It's got to be a registry problem. The game is Battlefield 1942 by
Electronic Arts. Would it be possible to send you a log of the registry
output? It's not very lengthy. I have no idea what the jargon means. Do you
think it's a registry type problem or the administrator issue? I saw your
utility for adding the admin to startup but couldnt get it to work. Thanks
for your continued help.

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:#TzUyHiqCHA.2516@TK2MSFTNGP09...
Brad,

If the program is successful in creating the files it needs, I would run
RegMon again, and watch for registry Writes, specifically, that fail.
Without knowing the program in question, its hard to be more specific. 

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"Brad" <lykspittle@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ez8pjjhqCHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> Doug, thanks for the quick reply. I forgot to mention that I had created a
> user profile with administrator privileges apart from "Administrator"
which
> I only know how to access in Safe Mode. Apparently the two are different.
> Anyhow, I used both suggested programs (FileMon and RegMon) and the
program
> in question appears to be doing it's job. It looks for files, if not there
> it attempts to create them, and checks again until "success" is obtained.
On
> processes where a failure occurs, they are always temp files in the path
of
> my user account. The program makes many attempts to fix this and
eventually
> it does, so without knowing anything about this, the progression doesn't
> seem out of the ordinary, though the problems are probably there. Logging
in
> as Administrator (safe mode), which is hidden on normal boots, I could not
> install nor run the previously installed program. An email to the company
> tech support think i have installation problems (which I don't) and
advised
> me to delete my windows profile and login as the default Windows XP user
> "Owner" *shrug*
>
>
>
>
> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:uhy8cQfqCHA.868@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> Its possible.  It depends on what's happening when the program runs for
the
> first time.  It could be trying to write to a part of the Registry that
even
> Admins don't have permissions to, by default.
>
> One tool that can help in this is RegMonNT, from www.sysinternals.com
> Load the Regmonnt program and then launch the application that you're
having
> trouble with.  You'll see the Registry Read/Write activity, and you can
> adjust the filters to reduce the clutter.
>
> It could also be a file system/Permissions issue.  SysInternals also has a
> FileMon utilty for NT based systems.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
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> "Brad" <lykspittle@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:#A4TMLfqCHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> > This might be the game's problem and not XP's but here goes. I am the
only
> > user of my computer (thus the administrator) and I installed the game
with
> > no problems. Upon running the game, a message pops up: Access denied.
> Please
> > login with administrator privileges and try again. I've tried taking
> control
> > of the files and same thing. I've created a new administrator and I get
> the
> > same message. If I was able to install the program, shouldn't I be able
to
> > execute it?
> >
> >
>
>

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