Halo Problem

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I just bought a copy of Halo and installed it with no problems. However,
whenever I try to actually play the game, a message appears saying 'Please
login with administrator privilages and try again'.

There is only one account on my PC and that is most definately an Admin
account. I have tried making another account with admin privilages but it
still does not work. As a related note, I also get this problem when I try to
use Windows Update (it just says that I can't use the site because I am not
an admin).

I think this might be to do with the last time I had to re-install WinXP.
The code that came with it had expired and I had to get a new one by ringing
up some number it gave me. In all the other installs I have had this problem
has not occured once.

Any help is gratefully appreciated.
 
Hi Waterz99,

If you're able to reinstall Service Pack 2 using either your existing administrator
account or the new one you've just created, that should allow you to correct the
permissions on your Files, Folders and Registry and allow you to install Halo.

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Waterz99 Wrote:
=================
| I just bought a copy of Halo and installed it with no problems. However,
| whenever I try to actually play the game, a message appears saying 'Please
| login with administrator privilages and try again'.
|
| There is only one account on my PC and that is most definately an Admin
| account. I have tried making another account with admin privilages but it
| still does not work. As a related note, I also get this problem when I try to
| use Windows Update (it just says that I can't use the site because I am not
| an admin).
|
| I think this might be to do with the last time I had to re-install WinXP.
| The code that came with it had expired and I had to get a new one by ringing
| up some number it gave me. In all the other installs I have had this problem
| has not occured once.
|
| Any help is gratefully appreciated.
 
I have just tried doing that and the problem still persists. Is there
something manual that I must do to fix these perrmissions, and if so what
must I do?
 
Hi Waterz99,


Your best solution would be to repair Windows using these instructions:

How to repair Windows XP:
Unplug from your Internet connection, and then repair Windows:
using this method: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Afterwards, boot up your system, turn on your XP Internet Firewall,
plug back into your Internet connection and install all Critical and
Recommended updates from: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________



Waterz99 Wrote:
=================
| I have just tried doing that and the problem still persists. Is there
| something manual that I must do to fix these perrmissions, and if so what
| must I do?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Waterz99,
||
|| If you're able to reinstall Service Pack 2 using either your existing administrator
|| account or the new one you've just created, that should allow you to correct the
|| permissions on your Files, Folders and Registry and allow you to install Halo.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| Waterz99 Wrote:
|| =================
||| I just bought a copy of Halo and installed it with no problems. However,
||| whenever I try to actually play the game, a message appears saying 'Please
||| login with administrator privilages and try again'.
|||
||| There is only one account on my PC and that is most definately an Admin
||| account. I have tried making another account with admin privilages but it
||| still does not work. As a related note, I also get this problem when I try to
||| use Windows Update (it just says that I can't use the site because I am not
||| an admin).
|||
||| I think this might be to do with the last time I had to re-install WinXP.
||| The code that came with it had expired and I had to get a new one by ringing
||| up some number it gave me. In all the other installs I have had this problem
||| has not occured once.
|||
||| Any help is gratefully appreciated.
 
i got halo full

Waterz99 said:
I have just tried doing that and the problem still persists. Is there
something manual that I must do to fix these perrmissions, and if so what
must I do?
Click to expand...
 
Hi tyler,

If you're having a problem getting your game to work,
please make a post in a new thread for assistance. :-)

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

tyler Wrote:
=================
| i got halo full
|
| "Waterz99" wrote:
|
|| I have just tried doing that and the problem still persists. Is there
|| something manual that I must do to fix these perrmissions, and if so what
|| must I do?
||
|| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||
||| Hi Waterz99,
|||
||| If you're able to reinstall Service Pack 2 using either your existing administrator
||| account or the new one you've just created, that should allow you to correct the
||| permissions on your Files, Folders and Registry and allow you to install Halo.
|||
||| --
||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||
||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||| _________________________________________________________
|||
||| Waterz99 Wrote:
||| =================
|||| I just bought a copy of Halo and installed it with no problems. However,
|||| whenever I try to actually play the game, a message appears saying 'Please
|||| login with administrator privilages and try again'.
||||
|||| There is only one account on my PC and that is most definately an Admin
|||| account. I have tried making another account with admin privilages but it
|||| still does not work. As a related note, I also get this problem when I try to
|||| use Windows Update (it just says that I can't use the site because I am not
|||| an admin).
||||
|||| I think this might be to do with the last time I had to re-install WinXP.
|||| The code that came with it had expired and I had to get a new one by ringing
|||| up some number it gave me. In all the other installs I have had this problem
|||| has not occured once.
||||
|||| Any help is gratefully appreciated.
 
Arg! Now I feel like crying.

The game still won't start, I can't use Windows Update and I can't repair
my install of XP!! Have I reached the point at which I need a new copy?
 
Hi Waterz99,

A fresh install would be in order if you're unable to repair the current
installation of Windows. Do you get an error when you attemt a repair?


--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

Waterz99 Wrote:
=================
| Arg! Now I feel like crying.
|
| The game still won't start, I can't use Windows Update and I can't repair
| my install of XP!! Have I reached the point at which I need a new copy?

How to repair Windows XP:
Unplug from your Internet connection, and then repair Windows:
using this method: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Afterwards, boot up your system, turn on your XP Internet Firewall,
plug back into your Internet connection and install all Critical and
Recommended updates from: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
 
Jimmy S,

Well, I followed the instructions in that guide, and when the list of
current installs was shown it said that my second hard disk (labelled F:) was
my C: drive, and my first hard disk wasn't present. When using the Recovery
Console, I can't run a bootcfg /scan command, it just gives me an error (I
assume this occurs because it's confused about my drives).

I think also that my copy of XP may be lurky, as when I tried installing it
 
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