Windows XP Home admin privilege

I replaced a floppy disk in a computer for a workmate and
it worked fine. Since then he has returned it with the
problem that his son cannot access games on the machine.

The error message states:

Access Denied

Please log on with administrators privileges and try again.

I have checked the user account and he has administrators
privileges.

Any suggestions

i cant see how replacing a floppy disk drive would effect
this at all... try loggin in as a new user (or possibly
the 'administrator' login, no password if its default
setting)

Chris Brighton

>-----Original Message-----
>I replaced a floppy disk in a computer for a workmate

and

>it worked fine. Since then he has returned it with the
>problem that his son cannot access games on the

machine.

>
>The error message states:
>
>Access Denied
>
>Please log on with administrators privileges and try

again.

>
>I have checked the user account and he has

administrators

>privileges.
>
>Any suggestions
>.
>

Thanks Chris

I agree and cannot see how this would be caused by
changing the floppy.

I suspect a corrupted file caused by the user but can only
work with what I am given. The PC has three log on users,
two with passords and one without, one password I do not
have access to, I have checked over the other one of the
password settings plus the one without; both have
administrators privilege rights assigned although when I
try ot access the games I get the log on using admin
privilege. I had thought before looking it over that the
users had been set to limited but not the case.

I will give it a try on a few other ideas but feel that I
might need to reformat and was hoping someone had come
across this before.

Regards

George

>-----Original Message-----
>
>i cant see how replacing a floppy disk drive would effect
>this at all... try loggin in as a new user (or possibly
>the 'administrator' login, no password if its default
>setting)
>
>Chris Brighton

>and

>machine.

>again.

>administrators

>.
>

log on as an administrator, create a new account (make it
an administrator too) try it on that acount

>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks Chris
>
>I agree and cannot see how this would be caused by
>changing the floppy.
>
>I suspect a corrupted file caused by the user but can

only

>work with what I am given. The PC has three log on

users,

>two with passords and one without, one password I do not
>have access to, I have checked over the other one of the
>password settings plus the one without; both have
>administrators privilege rights assigned although when I
>try ot access the games I get the log on using admin
>privilege. I had thought before looking it over that

the

>users had been set to limited but not the case.
>
>I will give it a try on a few other ideas but feel that

I

>might need to reformat and was hoping someone had come
>across this before.
>
>Regards
>
>George

effect

the

>.
>

Thanks Chris

I tried that but no joy, I have asked the user to supply
the original software disks and will try a repair
installation, failing that I will reformat and install
from scratch.

Regards

George

>-----Original Message-----
>log on as an administrator, create a new account (make

it

>an administrator too) try it on that acount
>
>

>only

>users,

not

the

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>the

>I

>effect

possibly

>the

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