administrator priveliges

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I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam) and when I double-click on it, this pops up "please login with administrative access and try again, could anyone tell me how to get it please? :ermm:


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I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam)
and when I double-click on it, this pops up "please login with
administrative access and try again, could anyone tell me how to get it
please? :ermm:


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Right click on the .exe and select "Run As Administrator."
 
pirishlad said:
I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam) ...
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NOTE: Please inform the admin of your *forum* (who hides behind a
private domain registration at GoDaddy) that their Usenet gateway is
screwing up their transferred posts by exceeding line lengths of 72-76
characters. Also ask them to insert a header that properly identifies
the client (gateway) they use to post to Usenet.

Logoff your limited account and logon using a Windows account with admin
rights (which should NOT be the Administrator account which should only
be used for disasters and recovery but instead you should have another
admin-level account for your own use)? If you don't have the login
credentials for an admin-level account, ask the owner of the computer to
see if they will create one for you.
 
Do what Mike suggested and right click to run the first time in case it
needs first time admin privs to write some configuration file. If it
prompts for admin rights the second time then do what Brink suggested and
set the shortcut properties to always run as admin, though it should still
annoy you a bit with prompting for the admin password each time you run it.
Of course if it just installed to a funny folder that it needs admin rights
to update files in, you may just be able to change security on that one
folder to avoid running as admin.
 
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