Another cause for Administrator only message can occur if a program on your computer
is intercepting the Windows Update process.
It may be worth checking out this article
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;241234
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;228548
Windows Update Was Disabled by Your System Administrator
Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows ME & Windows 98
"thomasdodd" <> wrote in message
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>I reinstalled windows98SE (4.10.2222A) after a disk failure. Going to windows
> update takes me to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp and I
> get a message about needing to be administrator. Win98 doesn't have an admin
> accout.
>
> How to get the updates this system needs?
>
>