Re: Administrator Interactive logon XP Home

I am trying to download from the windows catalogue. "Use administrator
options" radio button is greyed out. Message in viewing pane of web page
presented states "You must be logged on with administrator privileges to
access".

The two machines I have tried are in no way connected to each other, neither
am I attemting to network the two. I stated two machines to highlight the
problem does not appear to be caused by any configuration/setting with
firewalls, adware, spy ware virus's or such.

XP Home Sp2 = Computer administrator account.
XP Pro SP2 = Computer administrator account.

I asked about the default administrator account (XP Home) being able to log
on interactively, because, one privelege I know that is not available to
computer admin accounts on XP home, is the security tab on folder properties.
Now, if this is one privelege exclusive to the default admin account (which
is only accessible in safe mode), I'm sure there must be others. My thinking
was that this wee hiccup I'm having may well be one of them. I have not
tried using the default admin account on the XP Pro machine as I do not have
the password for that account.
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"Malke" wrote:

suscalian wrote:

Thanks for hanging in there Malke.

The XP Home machine is at home directly connected to internet via
broadband. The XP Pro machine is at work connected to internet via a
broadband router,
neither machines are in a domain, or connect through a proxy. I have
no
problem downloading anything or installing anything from anywhere
else. I'm
maybe needing to hook up a 2K machine and try that. Very frustrating
though.

Let's be very clear about this - you have two computers in completely
different locations running different versions of XP and you can't go
to the Windows Update catalogue site and download updates from either
machine?

I'm still a bit unclear about how your original post relates to the
issue. Here it is:

"Is there any way to edit the registry to allow the computer admin
account to logon interactively, when not running in safe mode. The
prob I'm having is accessing the windows catalogue to download service
packs and updates for installation on numerous machines."

Are you trying to remote into one of these computers from the other one?
Please describe exactly what you are trying to do and what you are
doing.

Malke
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