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I would appreciate someone responding to this post.



Can anyone explain to me why a NEW account that has 'Administrator'
privileges not be able to view videos in IE7 the same as the Administrator
account?



My problem appeared unexpectedly. I previously had an account that had
'Admin' privileges, and then all of a sudden I was unable to view videos in
IE7. I tried all of the various suggestions offered by Adobe (uninstall
Flash, run sublnACL, etc.) without success. Totally disgusted, I created a
new account with 'Admin' privileges.



After moving files and settings as outlined in various KB articles, I had
SUCCESS; but only for ONE day. Upon logging into IE7 the next day, I was
presented with the same problem I originally had; not being able to view
video, and not being able to download files from the Internet.



I've done all of the things that might be suggested; virus scans, spyware
scans, deleting temp files, deleting history files from IE (weren't that
many for one day) etc. and still no joy.



The irony is, I can run IE7 from the new account as 'Administrator' and
everything works great. I can log into the Administrator account and
everything works great! The problem is, I can run IE in my new account and
have it display videos or download files.



One would think that if there were a block in the firewall, it also would
affect the Administrator account as well, so I have ruled that out. I am at
wits end as to why this continues to happen.



Is there something about my original account that causes a problem (since I
copied all of my settings, etc.), or does one really have 'Administrator'
privileges when they become a member of the Administrators group?



I really would appreciate someone shedding some light as to what is going on
here. This is driving me crazy.



System:

XP Pro SP2 Up-to-date

IE7

ZoneAlarm AntiVirus

Spybot Search & Destroy

Flash Player 9.0.124.0
 
Jim said:
I would appreciate someone responding to this post.

Can anyone explain to me why a NEW account that has 'Administrator'
privileges not be able to view videos in IE7 the same as the Administrator
account?

My problem appeared unexpectedly. I previously had an account that had
'Admin' privileges, and then all of a sudden I was unable to view videos in
IE7. I tried all of the various suggestions offered by Adobe (uninstall
Flash, run sublnACL, etc.) without success. Totally disgusted, I created a
new account with 'Admin' privileges.

After moving files and settings as outlined in various KB articles, I had
SUCCESS; but only for ONE day. Upon logging into IE7 the next day, I was
presented with the same problem I originally had; not being able to view
video, and not being able to download files from the Internet.

I've done all of the things that might be suggested; virus scans, spyware
scans, deleting temp files, deleting history files from IE (weren't that
many for one day) etc. and still no joy.

The irony is, I can run IE7 from the new account as 'Administrator' and
everything works great. I can log into the Administrator account and
everything works great! The problem is, I can run IE in my new account and
have it display videos or download files.

One would think that if there were a block in the firewall, it also would
affect the Administrator account as well, so I have ruled that out. I am at
wits end as to why this continues to happen.

Is there something about my original account that causes a problem (since I
copied all of my settings, etc.), or does one really have 'Administrator'
privileges when they become a member of the Administrators group?

I really would appreciate someone shedding some light as to what is going on
here. This is driving me crazy.

System:

XP Pro SP2 Up-to-date

IE7

ZoneAlarm AntiVirus

Spybot Search & Destroy

Flash Player 9.0.124.0
Click to expand...

Something is missing in the original post. Just what websites are
involved when the video viewing issues occur? Do these sites requre
unique logons? Were these logons "automated", that is the computer
providing the stored logon name and password?

The direction I am going is that the problem is not with administrator
privileges but with the logon name with the administrator privileges.
When the new account was created, was the user profile copied to the
new user? (I presume that the original user profile is "Administrator".
Creating a new user or logon also generates a new "default" profile.
 
GHalleck,

Thanks for your reply.

I did make a mistake in the original post, which was corrected in the
subsequent reply post by me:

Correction:
The problem is, I can NOT run IE in my new account and
have it display videos or download files.

When the new user account was created, it was created with a different user
name but the files in 'Document and Settings\olduser' folder were copied
from my original corrupted account that was an 'Admin' account with the
exception of NTUser.dat and NTUser.ini. The old corrupted account and the
new corrupted account both have 'Admin' privilege.

My next step is to check all of the settings in the default Administrator
account and match them against the new account to see if there are
differences.
 
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