Re: administrator priveliges

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Do what Mike suggested and right click to run the first time in case it
needs first time admin privs to write some configuration file. If it
prompts for admin rights the second time then do what Brink suggested and
set the shortcut properties to always run as admin, though it should still
annoy you a bit with prompting for the admin password each time you run it.
Of course if it just installed to a funny folder that it needs admin rights
to update files in, you may just be able to change security on that one
folder to avoid running as admin.

"Brink" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7cf90dbd354d80cb37db0b732686282e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello Pirishlad,

Doing about the same as Mike suggested above, you might use
'Compatibility Mode'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/75909-compatibility-mode.html) on the
game's shortcut to select "Run this program as administrator" instead so
that you do not have to right click on the shortcut each time you want
to play the game.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

pirishlad;1091246 Wrote:
I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam)
and when I double-click on it, this pops up "please login with
administrative access and try again, could anyone tell me how to get it
please? :ermm:


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