Re: Unabale to Run As THE Administrator

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

John Pollard wrote:
My new installation of XP Pro is not behaving like previous installation (I had
someone else do the install).

When I right-click an install.exe file to install some third party software,
then click "Run as", then "The following user" "Administrator", I
get the following error:

"Unable to log on"
"Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are blank
passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has
been enforced."

There is only one user available at logon: me. And I am a "Computer Administraor".

There are no passwords set for any user.

I did not have this problem before the reinstall of XP Pro, and I don't have it on my
other pc running XP Pro.

How can I determine which restriction is preventing the "Run as" THE Administrator and how do
prevent the restriction from occuring in the future?

Is there some Windows option that can require THE Administrator to have a
password?

Where, in Windows, would restrictions on logon hours be specified?

What other "policy restrictions" could keep my User Account from doing a
RunAs THE Administrator?



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