Intel chipset drivers needs administrator rights?

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Hi All,

I am trying to install Intel's chipset drivers on a new
motherboard. Half way through it tells me I can not
install as I do not have administrator rights. This
happens with a user account with administrator rights
and the Administrator's account itself.

Hmmmmm. Any words of wisdom?

Many thanks,
-T
 
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Todd said:
Hi All,

I am trying to install Intel's chipset drivers on a new
motherboard. Half way through it tells me I can not
install as I do not have administrator rights. This
happens with a user account with administrator rights
and the Administrator's account itself.

Hmmmmm. Any words of wisdom?

Many thanks,
-T
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This is a XP newsgroup and unless you said otherwise, people will assume
you are running XP. Having said this, it sounds more like you are
running Vista/7/8, is this true?
 
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This is a XP newsgroup and unless you said otherwise, people will assume
you are running XP. Having said this, it sounds more like you are
running Vista/7/8, is this true?
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XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit. This was a motherboard
upgrade.
 
If you are the admininistrator or have administrative rights the account
*should* be able to install any hardware drivers.
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It would be a better world if the error messages we were
given "actually" matched up with the actual error.
 
From: "Todd" <[email protected]>






There are account access rights given to an account (LUA or administrator)

NTFS permissions and Registry permissions.



If the account used has adminstratuive rights but can't access a file one

can can take ownership and assign rights.



In the Registry, rights can be assigned to a branch of the Registry or

restricted by Policy.



Type 1:

Execute; SECPOL.MSC (if this is XP Home, it isn't available)

Software Restrictions and Policies --> Additional Rules



You should see the following with "unrestricted" rights

%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRoot%

%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProgramFilesDir%



Type 2:

Execute; REGEDIT.EXE

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM

Right-Click on "System" in the left pane

Choose; Permissions

Administrators should haved both "Full Control" and "Read"





if i cant see nothing with the first category?
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