Administrator and System Rights

From: Cory Bocach (cb29_at_attbi.com)
Date: 06/11/03 

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:44:11 -0700

I have 1 user on my XP Home install that is the Computer
Administrator. However, I am trying to install Norton
Antivirus and it is throwing an error telling me that I
must have administrator rights to have access to the
correct logs files and have them be "writable."

I know in Windows 2000 you have the ability to assign
system rights via the Local Security Policies. Is there a
way to do that in XP Home? I've gotten messages from Easy
CD Creator as well, telling me to login as a user with
administrator rights to complete the install.

Is this a defect within XP Home?

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

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