Administrative Access denied to an Administrator??

From: BklynGirl (BklynGirl_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/15/05


Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:55:24 -0700

I am trying to help a long-distance friend who is having trouble with WinXP
home edition... His system is set up to Autologon; He is the only user and he
has Administrative rights... yet, when he recently downloaded Real Player and
then tried to install it, he got an error message saying "Adminstrative
Access to system registry denied"

Also, he was having trouble changing the display properties, so he went into
control panel/system/device manager ... he got a message saying his graphics
controller did not have its drivers installed... he opted to allow the
correct drivers to be downloaded... which they did, but again was denied
access when the drivers attempted to install. We are totally stumped...
Administrators should have access to everything, right? Doesn't that include
installing software/drivers?
THANKS IN ADVACNE FOR ANY HELP!



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