Run As Problems

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My dad got an email from comcast about how he should run a firewall and have a certain downloaded up date from ms so he downloaded it and now it gives him a pop up box and in the title bar it says Run As and then it say "which user account do you want to run this as" problem is he is the only account on here and has guest account turned off. Also he has all the windows updates and here is the most info i could find about his proble

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305822&sd=e

when i try to run the gpedit.msc i get an "Windows cannot find a gpedit.msc...." also in event view it does say he is being audited y i dont know any help would be great
 
First, no update to XP from MS that I know of sets anything
to prompt for alternate credentials (use RunAs)
You should verify just exactly what is was that was downloaded
and installed. Are you sure it was something from Microsoft?

What is it that is being done when this prompting happens ??
If it is clicking on a shortcut, then you can go into the r-click
properties of the shortcut and deselect for it to use alternate
credentials.

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Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
brandon said:
My dad got an email from comcast about how he should run a firewall and
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have a certain downloaded up date from ms so he downloaded it and now it
gives him a pop up box and in the title bar it says Run As and then it say
"which user account do you want to run this as" problem is he is the only
account on here and has guest account turned off. Also he has all the
windows updates and here is the most info i could find about his problem
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305822&sd=ee

when i try to run the gpedit.msc i get an "Windows cannot find a
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gpedit.msc...." also in event view it does say he is being audited y i dont
know any help would be great
 
Windows XP will often prompt you for that whenever a program that requires
administrator rights tries to run, and you currently don't have admin
rights. A patch from Microsoft would require admin rights.

The question then becomes: is Dad an admin?


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Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP
Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware
 
Collin,

You may be correct that OP described a pop-up stating
admin rights are needed, but calling it a RunAs prompt.

I took OP to be saying this was downloaded and installed,
and now this new behavior is encountered.
 
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