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Final Blaxican
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Location: The epitome of my evolution. Account Restricted |
Admin Rights
I have Windows vista, and ti generally works fine except for when I try to play video games.
The games themselves work, but whenever I try to download a patch or something necessary to play online, my computer usually freezes up. At first I thought maybe it was my firewall or an internet related problem, so awhile ago when it happened alt-tabbed out of the game screen, and there was a little pop-up that said "You must have administrative rights to download this patch", something like that.
This confuses me, as I AM the Administrator. Actually, I'm the ONLY administrator. There's only two profiles on this computer, my own and my Moms and she's a limited user. So I don't understand why it thinks I'm not the Admin when in fact I am. I went to the account settings and it says that I am in fact Administrator, but when I try to download a patch the computer seems to refuse to acknowledge that fact.
Any ideas as to what may be happening?
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Feb 16th, 2008 09:35 PM |
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Ushgarak
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Set the programme you are using to run as admin (right click on it, Properties/Compatability/cick on the 'run as admin' box).
Vista is very paranoid and there are a number of programmes and games that only run correctly if tagged so.
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Feb 17th, 2008 01:38 AM |
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Callan
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An alternative is to turn UAC (User Account Control) off, if you haven't done so already. It should be in the Control Panel, under the User Account options.
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Feb 19th, 2008 02:41 PM |
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Kelly_Bean
Warum ist die Sonne rund?
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An easy option is to right-click and the drop-down menu will appear and there will be stuff like Run, Open, etc. Click "Run As Administrator." I believe it's the 3rd option down. (I have a vista too).
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Feb 19th, 2008 05:24 PM |
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