Access Denied

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Brian McCarthy

I hope someone can help. I have bought my son two games
for Christmas - Microsoft Age of Mythology and EA SIMCITY
4 Deluxe. I have tried to install them both several
times but on each occasion, once the install is
completed, I get the following message:

Access Denied - Try to login with Administrator
Privileges (or something to that effect).

I have several accounts on my XP computer, and all of
them have administrator privileges. I have tried to
login using the Admin profile in Safe Mode but the result
is still the same. I can find nothing in the Microsft
Knowledge Base to address this, but suspect that I may
have a corrupted Windows configuration. I also have
difficulty installing several critical updates and no
advice from this source I have received to date has
allowed me to resolve that one. I hope I don't have to
scrub my drive and build again from scratch, but I'm
beginning to think that will be my only option. Any
advice gratefully received.
 
Brian McCarthy said:
I hope someone can help. I have bought my son two games
for Christmas - Microsoft Age of Mythology and EA SIMCITY
4 Deluxe. I have tried to install them both several
times but on each occasion, once the install is
completed, I get the following message:

Access Denied - Try to login with Administrator
Privileges (or something to that effect).
Click to expand...

Try creating a new account with administrative privileges and try installing
while logged in with that account.
 
Well, Nice try but that won't work either. I've been
fighting with this same issue for the last 4 months and I
thought I was going to have to reinstall XP from
scratch... But I thought I would wait a few months and
see if anyone else came up with a solution... Microshaft
strikes again... Get an Xbox.... No "Admin" issues
there... I think Microsoft is trying to kill off the PC
Gaming areas anyway... Sorry about your Son.... Did it
work for you by any chance?
 
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