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Old September 26th 05, 10:19 PM
Carol
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I have Win XP SP2. I have an account called computer2 which has
administrator rights (I double-check this by going to the Control Panel and
picking User Accounts - the phrase "Computer administrator" is right under
the computer2 account.) But when I log in as computer2, there's a program
that won't run correctly. But it WILL run correctly when I log in as
administrator. It's probably not important what the program is, but it's
called Talking Typer. I've asked its manufacturer why certain commands in
Talking Typer don't work right, and they said it's because you have to be
logged in as an account that has administrator rights. I tell them that I'm
logged in as computer2, and computer 2 has administrator rights. They don't
have any answer for this, so I thought I'd check here. Are there any
circumstances under which an account with administrator rights doesn't have
FULL administrator rights? Or is there any other explanation for this?
Thanks.
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Old September 27th 05, 02:33 AM
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To my knowledge any administrative account looses privileges when a spyware
Trojan in the system has stripped your privileges. You may need to install
antispyware programs to get rid of a possible spyware that is causing the
problem. Adaware SE Personal Edition, Spybot Search & Destroy,
SpywareBlaster and CWShredder are the most recommended antispyware programs.
Install them all; in case one of the programs misses the bug another will
detect it.



http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html





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"Carol" escribió en el mensaje
...
I have Win XP SP2. I have an account called computer2 which has
administrator rights (I double-check this by going to the Control Panel

and
picking User Accounts - the phrase "Computer administrator" is right under
the computer2 account.) But when I log in as computer2, there's a program
that won't run correctly. But it WILL run correctly when I log in as
administrator. It's probably not important what the program is, but it's
called Talking Typer. I've asked its manufacturer why certain commands in
Talking Typer don't work right, and they said it's because you have to be
logged in as an account that has administrator rights. I tell them that

I'm
logged in as computer2, and computer 2 has administrator rights. They

don't
have any answer for this, so I thought I'd check here. Are there any
circumstances under which an account with administrator rights doesn't

have
FULL administrator rights? Or is there any other explanation for this?
Thanks.



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Old September 28th 05, 06:50 PM
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OK, thanks, I'll try it. I re-did the hard drive from that machine a while
ago, and I forgot to install any spyware programs, so thanks for the reminder.

"Juan" wrote:

To my knowledge any administrative account looses privileges when a spyware
Trojan in the system has stripped your privileges. You may need to install
antispyware programs to get rid of a possible spyware that is causing the
problem. Adaware SE Personal Edition, Spybot Search & Destroy,
SpywareBlaster and CWShredder are the most recommended antispyware programs.
Install them all; in case one of the programs misses the bug another will
detect it.



http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html





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"Carol" escribió en el mensaje
...
I have Win XP SP2. I have an account called computer2 which has
administrator rights (I double-check this by going to the Control Panel

and
picking User Accounts - the phrase "Computer administrator" is right under
the computer2 account.) But when I log in as computer2, there's a program
that won't run correctly. But it WILL run correctly when I log in as
administrator. It's probably not important what the program is, but it's
called Talking Typer. I've asked its manufacturer why certain commands in
Talking Typer don't work right, and they said it's because you have to be
logged in as an account that has administrator rights. I tell them that

I'm
logged in as computer2, and computer 2 has administrator rights. They

don't
have any answer for this, so I thought I'd check here. Are there any
circumstances under which an account with administrator rights doesn't

have
FULL administrator rights? Or is there any other explanation for this?
Thanks.




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Old October 4th 05, 12:57 AM
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OK, I installed all four of those programs and ran them. Ad-Aware, the first
one I ran, found 16 problem objects but the others found none. I had
Ad-Aware nuke the problem objects, but the problem still remains. Is there
any other reason a program wouldn't recognize that an account has
administrator privileges? I've now found this program on another computer,
using a different account - in both cases, the program (Talking Typer)
doesn't recognize that the account has administrator privileges.



"Juan" wrote:

To my knowledge any administrative account looses privileges when a spyware
Trojan in the system has stripped your privileges. You may need to install
antispyware programs to get rid of a possible spyware that is causing the
problem. Adaware SE Personal Edition, Spybot Search & Destroy,
SpywareBlaster and CWShredder are the most recommended antispyware programs.
Install them all; in case one of the programs misses the bug another will
detect it.



http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html





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"Carol" escribió en el mensaje
...
I have Win XP SP2. I have an account called computer2 which has
administrator rights (I double-check this by going to the Control Panel

and
picking User Accounts - the phrase "Computer administrator" is right under
the computer2 account.) But when I log in as computer2, there's a program
that won't run correctly. But it WILL run correctly when I log in as
administrator. It's probably not important what the program is, but it's
called Talking Typer. I've asked its manufacturer why certain commands in
Talking Typer don't work right, and they said it's because you have to be
logged in as an account that has administrator rights. I tell them that

I'm
logged in as computer2, and computer 2 has administrator rights. They

don't
have any answer for this, so I thought I'd check here. Are there any
circumstances under which an account with administrator rights doesn't

have
FULL administrator rights? Or is there any other explanation for this?
Thanks.




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Old October 5th 05, 11:54 AM
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It's to much a coincidence that on both computer the same program causes
that problem; it could be the program is not to be trusted but the
antispyware programs should have recognized it as suspicious; If you did not
update the anti-spyware programs before you scanned the computer, update
them and scan again, if it does not help, modify the administrator or
administrative account privileges to the program this way:

If you have Windows XP Home Edition logon is Safe Mode; restart the computer
and when the first Logo screen appears press F8 a few times at a second
intervals and select Safe Mode, if you have XP Professional go to Control
Panel\Folder Options\View\go to the bottom of the window and uncheck Use
simple file sharing (recommended) this will make the Security tab in
programs, folders or file properties. Next in safe mode for Home or normal
mode for Professional go to the program folder properties\security\advanced
options\select the administrator account and click on Modify and check all
privileges in full control (you may have to add the account to be able to
renew it's privileges) when all privileges are checked Accept and Apply,
then uncheck where it says Inherit from the main object all entries and
permissions relative to the secondary objects etc. As the confirmation
message appears click on remove, accept and apply everything and exit.

This should recover full or total access to the program; if there was no
missing privileges to the administrator account in the security tab, the
program should be treated as spyware and removed; or if after modifying
administrative privileges to full control and later the account looses those
privileges again, no doubt will remain that the program itself is the
problem and the only way to end it will be to remove it from the system

Hope this helps.

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"Carol" escribió en el mensaje
...
OK, I installed all four of those programs and ran them. Ad-Aware, the

first
one I ran, found 16 problem objects but the others found none. I had
Ad-Aware nuke the problem objects, but the problem still remains. Is

there
any other reason a program wouldn't recognize that an account has
administrator privileges? I've now found this program on another

computer,
using a different account - in both cases, the program (Talking Typer)
doesn't recognize that the account has administrator privileges.



"Juan" wrote:

To my knowledge any administrative account looses privileges when a

spyware
Trojan in the system has stripped your privileges. You may need to

install
antispyware programs to get rid of a possible spyware that is causing

the
problem. Adaware SE Personal Edition, Spybot Search & Destroy,
SpywareBlaster and CWShredder are the most recommended antispyware

programs.
Install them all; in case one of the programs misses the bug another

will
detect it.



http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html





---------------------------------
"Carol" escribió en el mensaje
...
I have Win XP SP2. I have an account called computer2 which has
administrator rights (I double-check this by going to the Control

Panel
and
picking User Accounts - the phrase "Computer administrator" is right

under
the computer2 account.) But when I log in as computer2, there's a

program
that won't run correctly. But it WILL run correctly when I log in as
administrator. It's probably not important what the program is, but

it's
called Talking Typer. I've asked its manufacturer why certain

commands in
Talking Typer don't work right, and they said it's because you have to

be
logged in as an account that has administrator rights. I tell them

that
I'm
logged in as computer2, and computer 2 has administrator rights. They

don't
have any answer for this, so I thought I'd check here. Are there any
circumstances under which an account with administrator rights doesn't

have
FULL administrator rights? Or is there any other explanation for

this?
Thanks.










 




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