administrator priveliges

I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam) and when I double-click on it, this pops up "please login with administrative access and try again, could anyone tell me how to get it please? :ermm:


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"pirishlad" wrote in message news:...
> I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam)
> and when I double-click on it, this pops up "please login with
> administrative access and try again, could anyone tell me how to get it
> please? :ermm:
>
>
> Post Originated from Vista Support Forums

Right click on the .exe and select "Run As Administrator."


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pirishlad wrote:

> I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam) ...
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Logoff your limited account and logon using a Windows account with admin
rights (which should NOT be the Administrator account which should only
be used for disasters and recovery but instead you should have another
admin-level account for your own use)? If you don't have the login
credentials for an admin-level account, ask the owner of the computer to
see if they will create one for you.

Hello Pirishlad,

Doing about the same as Mike suggested above, you might use
'Compatibility Mode'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/75...lity-mode.html) on the
game's shortcut to select "Run this program as administrator" instead so
that you do not have to right click on the shortcut each time you want
to play the game.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

pirishlad;1091246 Wrote:
> I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam)
> and when I double-click on it, this pops up "please login with
> administrative access and try again, could anyone tell me how to get it
> please? :ermm:
>
>
> Post Originated from 'Windows Vista Forum' ()
> Vista Support Forums


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Run in Administrator mode

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<pirishlad> wrote in message news:...
>I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam) and when I
>double-click on it, this pops up "please login with administrative access and try
>again, could anyone tell me how to get it please? :ermm:
>
>
> Post Originated from Vista Support Forums

Do what Mike suggested and right click to run the first time in case it
needs first time admin privs to write some configuration file. If it
prompts for admin rights the second time then do what Brink suggested and
set the shortcut properties to always run as admin, though it should still
annoy you a bit with prompting for the admin password each time you run it.
Of course if it just installed to a funny folder that it needs admin rights
to update files in, you may just be able to change security on that one
folder to avoid running as admin.

"Brink" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hello Pirishlad,
>
> Doing about the same as Mike suggested above, you might use
> 'Compatibility Mode'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/75...lity-mode.html) on the
> game's shortcut to select "Run this program as administrator" instead so
> that you do not have to right click on the shortcut each time you want
> to play the game.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
> pirishlad;1091246 Wrote:
>> I installed Battlefield 1942 and all of it's expansions (except Vietnam)
>> and when I double-click on it, this pops up "please login with
>> administrative access and try again, could anyone tell me how to get it
>> please? :ermm:
>>
>>
>> Post Originated from 'Windows Vista Forum' ()
>> Vista Support Forums
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> '*MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience*'
> (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...5-AD617AF3D511)
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
> '*::Windows 7 Forums::*'
>
> >
> *Please post feedback to help others.*