Log in as administrator

[Matt]

I have a user account with Administrator Rights. I have
been contacting Creatives tech support and they have sent
me a patch to install. They say I must log in as the
Administrator and not a User with administrative abilities.

So, how to I log in as administrator. The only time I've
ever seen it as an option is when in Safe Mode.

thanks

[Michael Howard [MSFT]]

you can login as the admin only in safe mode, however, you can login as a
member of the local admin group - just add your account to the
Administrators group using the Users and Groups tool in the Control Panel

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Cheers, Michael
Writing Secure Code 2nd Edition
(http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/5957.asp)

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"Matt" > wrote in message
...
> I have a user account with Administrator Rights. I have
> been contacting Creatives tech support and they have sent
> me a patch to install. They say I must log in as the
> Administrator and not a User with administrative abilities.
>
> So, how to I log in as administrator. The only time I've
> ever seen it as an option is when in Safe Mode.
>
> thanks

[Keith]

I have been noticing the same problems with my system,
but are at a different level. I have already added my
user as part of the administrator group and have even
edited the user permissions in the registry at every HKEY
level, but i still get access denied issues and "you
don't have administrator access" error messages when I
try to install patches or even install Outlook. Is this
a big time XP bug or what???


>-----Original Message-----
>you can login as the admin only in safe mode, however,
you can login as a
>member of the local admin group - just add your account
to the
>Administrators group using the Users and Groups tool in
the Control Panel
>
>--
>
>Cheers, Michael
>Writing Secure Code 2nd Edition
>(http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/5957.asp)
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>"Matt" > wrote in message
...
>> I have a user account with Administrator Rights. I
have
>> been contacting Creatives tech support and they have
sent
>> me a patch to install. They say I must log in as the
>> Administrator and not a User with administrative
abilities.
>>
>> So, how to I log in as administrator. The only time
I've
>> ever seen it as an option is when in Safe Mode.
>>
>> thanks
>
>
>.
>