Deano said:
New to XP. Why would XP Pro (or Home) prevent me from installing
or running an AV program? Do I need to change something specific in
admin controls? I have tried both Norton AV and AVG and can only get
partial installs with neither being able to run. Fresh, full legal
install of XP Pro. PC is faster Celeron with 512 RAM. Any suggestions??
I am stumped. ;-Deano
The only thing that I can think of that would "prevent" you from installing
such programs is if you are not either the Administrator or in the
Administrators group. Try logging in as the Administrator user and install.
If you are logging in as a domain user who is in the admin group Norton may
not see you as in the admin group. Yes I know this is weird. Recently my
company changed from Active Directory to LDAP. Something changed in the
GUID for the users so MOST, not all but MOST third party programs (like AV
programs) didn't recognize me as in the admin group. Domain Admins remained
as Domain Admins, local users in the admin group stayed there but all domain
users that were in the admin group were no longer recognized as such. All
of the built-in Windows functions saw me as admin because I could change
system settings but programs like our AV program, PowerQuest's stuff, Oracle
and a few others refused to see me as having admin privs. I had to delete
my profile from the disk and delete my tree from the registry. Then I
re-added myself back into the admin group, logged in as "me" and it worked.
WARNING: If you are not exactly sure of what you are doing DON'T try this!
You can trash your system. At least make a backup of your system drive
before you do this.
Kevin
