Administrator login an XP Home without Safe Mode or with higher screen resolution

From: Al Moben (al.moben_at_freenet.de)
Date: 11/06/03 

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:05:15 +0100

I have a problem installing an application as Administrator on Windows XP *HOME* Edition:

When I boot to normal mode and logon with a user account, the application setup quits with the message "You have to log on as
Administrator". This happens no matter if the user account has administrator privilages or not. It really requires *the*
Administrator login.

So, in order to log on as Administrator on XP HOME, I have read that I have to boot to Safe Mode. I did boot to Safe Mode, log on as
Administrator, but when I start my application setup, it fails with the message "Your system does not meet the minimum system
requirements: Screen resolution 800 x 600 or higher required". But my Safe Mode has only 640 x 480, so again, I cannot install the
application.

You see the problem: Log on in normal mode, and it fails because I am not Administrator. Log on as Administrator in safe mode, and
it doesn't have enough screen resolution because of safe mode. Fails to install in both cases for different reasons.

Is there any way to (1) log on as Administrator in Normal Mode in XP HOME, or (2) log on as Administrator in Safe Mode but have the
higher screen resolution of normal mode? Or any other option that would help? The software installed fine on Win ME and Win 2000,
but 2000 had a normal Administrator login. But now I have a XP HOME machine, and it doesn't work.

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