Unabale to Run As THE Administrator

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John Pollard

My new installation of XP Pro is not behaving like previous installation (I
had
someone else do the install).

When I right-click an install.exe file to install some third party software,
then click "Run as", then "The following user" "Administrator", I
get the following error:

"Unable to log on"
"Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are blank
passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has
been enforced."

There is only one user available at logon: me. And I am a "Computer
Administraor".

There are no passwords set for any user.

I did not have this problem before the reinstall of XP Pro, and I don't have
it on my
other pc running XP Pro.

How can I determine which restriction is preventing the "Run as" THE
Administrator and how do
prevent the restriction from occuring in the future?

Is there some Windows option that can require THE Administrator to have a
password?

Where, in Windows, would restrictions on logon hours be specified?

What other "policy restrictions" could keep my User Account from doing a
RunAs THE Administrator?
 
If you are logged in already as admin why are you trying to run the program
as yourself. this coul dvery well be why it will not work. Now if you were
logged in as a user without admin rights and the user did not have install
priv then try to run as... but if you have admin rights why even type all
that crap in.
 
John said:
My new installation of XP Pro is not behaving like previous
installation (I had
someone else do the install).

When I right-click an install.exe file to install some third party
software, then click "Run as", then "The following user"
"Administrator", I get the following error:

"Unable to log on"
"Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are
blank passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy
restriction has been enforced."

There is only one user available at logon: me. And I am a "Computer
Administraor".

There are no passwords set for any user.

I did not have this problem before the reinstall of XP Pro, and I
don't have it on my
other pc running XP Pro.

How can I determine which restriction is preventing the "Run as" THE
Administrator and how do
prevent the restriction from occuring in the future?

Is there some Windows option that can require THE Administrator to
have a password?

Where, in Windows, would restrictions on logon hours be specified?

What other "policy restrictions" could keep my User Account from
doing a RunAs THE Administrator?
Click to expand...

Multi-posted?
 
John said:
My new installation of XP Pro is not behaving like previous installation (I
had
someone else do the install).

When I right-click an install.exe file to install some third party software,
then click "Run as", then "The following user" "Administrator", I
get the following error:

"Unable to log on"
"Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are blank
passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has
been enforced."

There is only one user available at logon: me. And I am a "Computer
Administraor".

There are no passwords set for any user.

I did not have this problem before the reinstall of XP Pro, and I don't have
it on my
other pc running XP Pro.

How can I determine which restriction is preventing the "Run as" THE
Administrator and how do
prevent the restriction from occuring in the future?

Is there some Windows option that can require THE Administrator to have a
password?

Where, in Windows, would restrictions on logon hours be specified?

What other "policy restrictions" could keep my User Account from doing a
RunAs THE Administrator?
Click to expand...

Don't try using RunAs as a means of installing software (that requires
admin rights). The problem is that some setup programs will start
another program to continue the installation. The RunAs only applies to
the original program that you specified, not to any ancilliary programs
used during the installation. So logon as an admin user and do the
install.
 
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