Re: Installation of Software

From: Star Fleet Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)_at_(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:40:41 -0500

Are you truly logged on as the user "Administrator" or an account with admin
rights. We've ran across a few software packages lately the will only
install correctly when logged on as the true user "Administrator". Having
checked with the vendor, they specifically hard-coded an internal
installation check for "User - Administrator" instead of "Group -
Administrator" - seems the programmer didn't know the difference between the
2 ;-(

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1149b01c3f4c4$39a94db0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> For Adobe Photo shop It Says
> You must have system Administrator Priviledges for your
> registration code to be activated on this computer.
> For threedegrees it says
> The installer has insufficient priviledges to access this
> directory
> c:\documents and settings\allusers\documents\shared group
> icons
> Log on as or contact your administrator
> In both cases i am logged in as the administrator
>
> Thanks
> Trex
> >Hi
> >
> >What is the exact message you get?
> >
> >
>
> >--
> >torgeir
> >Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> >Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version
> of the 1328 page
> >Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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