Windows doesn't recognized me as an administrator

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From: Bikerdup (Bikerdup_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:21:02 -0800

I encountered and interesting issue with Windows XP Home Edition this
morning. I tried to load a new program, and Windows gave me the following
error message:

"You do not have access to make the required system configuration
modifications. Please rerun this installation from an administrator account."

I have always been an administrator on this machine. I checked in "User
Accounts", and accoding to that, I still am. Anyone know why I would be
disallowed to install new programs?

Thanks!

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