Administrator login an XP Home without Safe Mode or with higher screen resolution

[Al Moben]

I have a problem installing an application as Administrator on Windows XP *HOME* Edition:

When I boot to normal mode and logon with a user account, the application setup quits with the message "You have to log on as
Administrator". This happens no matter if the user account has administrator privilages or not. It really requires *the*
Administrator login.

So, in order to log on as Administrator on XP HOME, I have read that I have to boot to Safe Mode. I did boot to Safe Mode, log on as
Administrator, but when I start my application setup, it fails with the message "Your system does not meet the minimum system
requirements: Screen resolution 800 x 600 or higher required". But my Safe Mode has only 640 x 480, so again, I cannot install the
application.

You see the problem: Log on in normal mode, and it fails because I am not Administrator. Log on as Administrator in safe mode, and
it doesn't have enough screen resolution because of safe mode. Fails to install in both cases for different reasons.

Is there any way to (1) log on as Administrator in Normal Mode in XP HOME, or (2) log on as Administrator in Safe Mode but have the
higher screen resolution of normal mode? Or any other option that would help? The software installed fine on Win ME and Win 2000,
but 2000 had a normal Administrator login. But now I have a XP HOME machine, and it doesn't work.

 

[Patrik Lundberg [MSFT]]

Re: Is there any way to logon as administrator in Normal Mode...

Try the following:

1. Log all users off
2. At the logon screen press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to bring up the classic
logon dialog
3. Enter Admininstrator credentials

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I have a problem installing an application as Administrator on Windows XP *HOME* Edition:

When I boot to normal mode and logon with a user account, the application

setup quits with the message "You have to log on as

Administrator". This happens no matter if the user account has

administrator privilages or not. It really requires *the*

Administrator login.

So, in order to log on as Administrator on XP HOME, I have read that I

have to boot to Safe Mode. I did boot to Safe Mode, log on as

Administrator, but when I start my application setup, it fails with the

message "Your system does not meet the minimum system

requirements: Screen resolution 800 x 600 or higher required". But my Safe

Mode has only 640 x 480, so again, I cannot install the

application.

You see the problem: Log on in normal mode, and it fails because I am not

Administrator. Log on as Administrator in safe mode, and

it doesn't have enough screen resolution because of safe mode. Fails to

install in both cases for different reasons.

Is there any way to (1) log on as Administrator in Normal Mode in XP HOME,

or (2) log on as Administrator in Safe Mode but have the

higher screen resolution of normal mode? Or any other option that would

help? The software installed fine on Win ME and Win 2000,

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

This will not work in XP Home.

Re: Is there any way to logon as administrator in Normal Mode...

Try the following:

1. Log all users off
2. At the logon screen press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to bring up the classic
logon dialog
3. Enter Admininstrator credentials

--
Sincerely,
-Patrik

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purposes only.

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XP
*HOME* Edition: application
setup quits with the message "You have to log on as
administrator privilages or not. It really requires *the*
have to boot to Safe Mode. I did boot to Safe Mode, log on as
message "Your system does not meet the minimum system Safe
Mode has only 640 x 480, so again, I cannot install the not
Administrator. Log on as Administrator in safe mode, and
install in both cases for different reasons. HOME,
or (2) log on as Administrator in Safe Mode but have the
help? The software installed fine on Win ME and Win 2000,

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Correction, you can log on this way, but not to the built in Administrator
account. It is only accessible via Safe Mode.

 

[davetest]

Correction, you can log on this way, but not to the built in Administrator
account. It is only accessible via Safe Mode.

XP Home has some weird restrictions.
Seems like it's crippled in area's that
inconvenience the user rather than just provide a reduced
feature set.

For example, PRO has the policy editor, it's an extra feature
for fine tuning the system. Home doesn't have it.
That seems a sensible delineation.

But restricting the HOME user from logging on as ADMIN
does not. Seems a petty choice to me.

Dave

 

[Al Moben]

Hi Doug,

Correction, you can log on this way, but not to the built in Administrator
account. It is only accessible via Safe Mode.

Hm, ok, but my original problem remains: The application setup (which was obviously designed in the good old non-restricted days of
WinME and Win2K) requires me to meet both requirements: log an as *the* Administrator and have a screen resolution of at least
800x600 pixels. If, as you say, it's only possible to log an as Administrator in Safe Mode, that would reduce the question to this:
How can I switch to 800x600 in Safe Mode? My Safe Mode on that machine seems to have only 640x480 resolution.

Al.

 

[Al Moben]

Hi Davetest,

XP Home has some weird restrictions.
Seems like it's crippled in area's that
inconvenience the user rather than just provide a reduced
feature set.

It's not just causing inconvenience to the user, in my case it's completly breaking compatibility with older (~ year 2000) software,
which requires to be installed by *the* Administrator with a screen resolution of 800x600, which I don't have in Safe Mode...
(solutions anyone?)

But maybe that's what Microsoft wants: Have XP Home pre-installed on every system (brings cash into Bill Gates' pockets), then let
the user eXPerience that their OS is a crippled version, and in doing so force them to upgrade to XP Pro (and again cash into Bill
Gates' pockets). Sounds like a clever money making model to me...

But restricting the HOME user from logging on as ADMIN
does not. Seems a petty choice to me.

And after google-ing through various newsgroups yesterday, I
(1) found many posts of users who are annoyed by this
(2) found no posts of users who said "great way to restrict it"

Al

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Unfortunately, not that I'm aware of Al.

Hi Doug,


Hm, ok, but my original problem remains: The application setup (which was

obviously designed in the good old non-restricted days of

WinME and Win2K) requires me to meet both requirements: log an as *the*

Administrator and have a screen resolution of at least

800x600 pixels. If, as you say, it's only possible to log an as

Administrator in Safe Mode, that would reduce the question to this:

How can I switch to 800x600 in Safe Mode? My Safe Mode on that machine

seems to have only 640x480 resolution.