Not sure if this'll help - I stumbled across it looking
for a solution to a different problem, and thought it
might assist you. Good luck!
Subject: Re: I AM the Administrator - but I can't aadd
privileges to myself
From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> Sent:
1/10/2004 3:52:49 AM
It sounds to me like your are using NTFS filesystem and
the permissions on C:\Program Files somehow became
out of whack.
You could try opening a cmd prompt (start / run cmd)
and in it enter the commands
cacls "C:\Program Files" /t /e /g Users:R
cacls "C:\Program Files" /t /e /g System:F
cacls "C:\Program Files" /t /e /g Administrators:F
These will restore part of the installation default
permissions
that normally exists on C:\Program Files, and it is the
part that
is important for the environment you have described, where
you are a stand-alone system with yourself as the one
user.
"Jeffrey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
news:2ca101c3d6e4$eaa2c810$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Folks,
>
> I'm at my wit's end. I am the ONLY user of my stand
alone
> computer and I am the administrator. I am not on a
> network. I know my password. But I can't install new
> software because I don't have the privileges. And I
can't
> give myself more privileges and I don't know why.
>
> The problems began a few days ago when I began trying to
> install Norton SystemWorks 2003 Pro. Among the myriad of
> errors, I continued to receive many such as: "Error
1303:
> The installer has insufficient privileges to access this
> directory C:\Program Files\ . . . The installation
cannot
> continue. Log on as ad administrator or contact your
> system administrator."
>
> I gave up on installing Norton for the time being. Now
I'm
> merely trying to install a DVD maker program so that I
can
> save all my data in case of a computer disaster. But I
> keep getting the same kind of error: "Error 1303: The
> installer has insufficient privileges to access this
> directory C:\Program Files\ . . . The installation
cannot
> continue. Log on as administrator or contact your system
> administrator."
>
> I've gone into the Component Services, Computer
> Management, Local Security Policy, Performance and
> Services in an effort to afford myself every
conceiveable
> privilege. I confess that I don't yet know what I'm
doing,
> having only recently entered the Win XP Pro world from
Win
> 98SE. Could someone please tell me the steps to do this?
> All I want to do is back up my computer and be able to
do
> whatever I need to do with my system as administrator.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> (E-Mail Removed)
=========================================================
>-----Original Message-----
>I set up Windows XP recently on 2 PCs. On one
everything is fine. However,
>on the other I have 2 current problems: I cannot install
the Java Virtual
>Machine, and the Advanced tab on network properties
(that allows Firewall to
>be set) is not visible. Looking into it, I found that I
don't have admin
>rights-- even when I log on as Admin! I have never
encountered this before.
>
>An exhaustive search of the MS Knowledge Base and Google
has turned up
>nothing. Can anyone help on this?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Randall Arnold
>
>
>.
>
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