Admin Rights on ME

[Grnscrpn]

has anyone ever encountered a problem on Win ME where, it says you don't have full rights to install a program like ICQ. I have all users having the same rights, aka Admin users. I have seen this on Win 2k where you can limits what different users can do like install and run stuff, but i have never seen it on ME. my machine crashed while i was install ICQ and now it says i don't have the admin right's to install this program. anyone have any ideas on where i can change or look at the Secruity policys on ME?


i can always re-format and waste 2 hours but i wana see if anyone has any idea's first.

thanks


Grn

 

[DaEezT]

basically there isn't any feature in ME like in the NT based windows versions that let you give rights to users.

I once encountered that Admin Rights thingy too when I wanted to start regedit. That was after I installed a Firewall to test it and it had an option to protect itself from being disabled via registry and thus disabled registry access until you entered a PW.
I tried to get around it with Tweak UI but had no luck.

 

[CornMaster]

You may be able to restore the registry depending on when it happened.

Go to start then run. Then type "scanreg /restore". You will get a message about restarting windows. Say yes. Then select a date before the problem happened. See if that fixes it.

You could also try system restore.

 

[Diety]

Yep I had that problem. Twice actually.
There's only one way to get rid of it permantly : install WinXP or Win98. WinME is a *bad* idea when you want to do anything "unusual" with your comp.

 

[Crazy_Vasey]

Get win2k thats most definately the best MS OS.