XP Guest account...administrator denied access error

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My boyfriend went on my guest account, (I have Windows XP Home Edition) which
is a somewhat of a normal occurance, and tried to download Yahoo Messenger so
that we can talk whie I am out of town. He said he was able to DOWNLOAD
messenger, but was not able to run it (run the .exe), getting an error
message...something administrator access denied. He thinks i've done
something to the computer to where he can't get the messenger! Please help us
explain this occurance to him. I believe it is because the guest account is
by default a limited account. If you can give me details on how this happens,
how Windows Guest is set up, anything that will help me in explaining this to
him, I will appreciate it sooooo much!!

Thank you!!!
Jen
 
jbues1976 said:
My boyfriend went on my guest account...
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Answered in other group. Please crosspost instead of multiposting.

Regards,

Len Agoado
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Leonard said:
Answered in other group. Please crosspost instead of multiposting.

Regards,

Len Agoado
(e-mail address removed)
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What group would that be? Unlike yourself, not everyone here
subscribes to every Micro$oft group on usenet.
 
jbues1976 said:
My boyfriend went on my guest account, (I have Windows XP Home Edition)
which
is a somewhat of a normal occurance, and tried to download Yahoo Messenger
so
that we can talk whie I am out of town. He said he was able to DOWNLOAD
messenger, but was not able to run it (run the .exe), getting an error
message...something administrator access denied. He thinks i've done
something to the computer to where he can't get the messenger! Please help
us
explain this occurance to him. I believe it is because the guest account
is
by default a limited account. If you can give me details on how this
happens,
how Windows Guest is set up, anything that will help me in explaining this
to
him, I will appreciate it sooooo much!!
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Your PC has behaved entirely correctly. The guest account has very limited
capabilities (more restricted than even a limited acount). The ability to
install utilties is certainly not one of them.
 
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