Re: Unable to play games on XP

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From: Jimmy S. (Private)
Date: 05/15/04 

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 12:23:46 -0400

Hi Robski28,

There might be an easy workaround to this problem. Since you
have access to the Administrator's account, use it to create a new
account with Administrator privileges to install those game with. 

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"Robski28" <robinj@rhilder.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:d68a01c43a8b$c69fc0c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
| My home PC is used by only myself. I have installed games
| like DEUS EX2, Age of Mythologies and GTA3 but even
| though they install i cannot play them because an error
| message come up saying "Please login with administrator
| privileges".. I AM!!!! the computer administrator, it
| says so but will not allow me to play the games. I AM
| able to modify windows in any way i want, like an
| administrator can but it seems that i have no access to
| my games.  Any help would be much appreciated.
| Many thanx. Robin.

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