Administrative privileges

I have Windows XP Home. I now have three applications that tells me that I
need "Administrative privileges " to use the application. My account is the
only account setup with the exception of the guest account. How did I lose
the administrative privileges?

Don't know how you lost them (or if you've ever had them),
but you can give yourself privaledges fairly easily...

1. Log in as 'administrator'
2. Go to Control Panel
3. Open up Administrative Tools
4. Open up Computer Management
5. Open the Users and Groups setting
6. Open the Groups folder
7. Open 'Administrators'
8. click on Add and give youself (and the other two users
if you want) administrator rights.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Home. I now have three applications

that tells me that I

>need "Administrative privileges " to use the application.

My account is the

>only account setup with the exception of the guest

account. How did I lose

>the administrative privileges?
>
>
>.
>

I do not see User and Groups selection in Computer Management console. in
Administrative Tools. I have Administration privilege.
-ram
"Tommy" <dr_obvious81@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0bd501c35cfe$b29b8110$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> Don't know how you lost them (or if you've ever had them),
> but you can give yourself privaledges fairly easily...
>
> 1. Log in as 'administrator'
> 2. Go to Control Panel
> 3. Open up Administrative Tools
> 4. Open up Computer Management
> 5. Open the Users and Groups setting
> 6. Open the Groups folder
> 7. Open 'Administrators'
> 8. click on Add and give youself (and the other two users
> if you want) administrator rights.
>
>
>

> that tells me that I

> My account is the

> account. How did I lose

I could not find the Users and Groups setting either.
"ram" <ram@juno.com> wrote in message
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> I do not see User and Groups selection in Computer Management console. in
> Administrative Tools. I have Administration privilege.
> -ram
> "Tommy" <dr_obvious81@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:0bd501c35cfe$b29b8110$a601280a@phx.gbl...

>
>

In article <#HhpL2RXDHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, ram@juno.com says...

> I do not see User and Groups selection in Computer Management console. in
> Administrative Tools. I have Administration privilege.

Under System Tools - Local Users and Groups.
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In article <O9X9eFVXDHA.3232@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, jwrand@esc4.com
says...

> I could not find the Users and Groups setting either.

Under System Tools - Local Users and Groups
--
(I may be wrong...I usually am....)
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www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

"rifleman" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:MPG.199d5b95f61f7507989829@msnews.microsoft.c om...

> In article <O9X9eFVXDHA.3232@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, jwrand@esc4.com
> says...

>
> Under System Tools - Local Users and Groups
> --
> (I may be wrong...I usually am....)
> Google is your Friend
> Email address deliberately false to avoid spam:
> www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
>

Bwahahahahahaha! You pillock!

Sorry, I still can not find the file. It is not in System Tools.
"rifleman" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> In article <#HhpL2RXDHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, ram@juno.com says...

in

>
> Under System Tools - Local Users and Groups.
> --
> (I may be wrong...I usually am....)
> Google is your Friend
> Email address deliberately false to avoid spam:
> www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
>

"Jimmie Rand" <poprand@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:%23GJTHObXDHA.1744@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

> Sorry, I still can not find the file. It is not in System Tools.

What the gormless rifleman didn't read from your original post, was that you have XP Home, which does not have the users and groups settings like Pro has. You'll need to do what you want by starting in Safe Mode, under that Admin account, then install what you want.

In article <7323670af7c3a7b258235154b2109fbc@TeraNews>, " Ted" <"""">
says...

>
> "Jimmie Rand" <poprand@earthlink.net> wrote in message =
> news:%23GJTHObXDHA.1744@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

>
> What the gormless rifleman didn't read from your original post, was that =
> you have XP Home,

Why not just say that in the first place you shitbag?
I wouldn't give you the steam off my piss you idle fucker.
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