Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run

Hi, I have Vista Home Premium 64bit, I'm trying to install and run a
BETA game I need to test, all goes fine until I try to run it, I get the
message "Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run". I have
one account, as admin, no password and I already tried "run as admin"
for the game but still the same. When I go to parental controls it tells
me none are set as I'm an administrator, so no way to turn them on or
off! I don't want another account, I just want one account, I'm the only
user and I want to be able to do eveything with my account.
How can I completely turn parental controls off? Driving me a bit crazy
this...

Thanks


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Patrick23

Hello Patrick,

Stopping and disabling the "Parental Controls" '*_service_*'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/59910-services.html) should be able
to stop it from blocking it for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Patrick23;1054058 Wrote:
> Hi, I have Vista Home Premium 64bit, I'm trying to install and run a
> BETA game I need to test, all goes fine until I try to run it, I get the
> message "Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run". I have
> one account, as admin, no password and I already tried "run as admin"
> for the game but still the same. When I go to parental controls it tells
> me none are set as I'm an administrator, so no way to turn them on or
> off! I don't want another account, I just want one account, I'm the only
> user and I want to be able to do eveything with my account.
> How can I completely turn parental controls off? Driving me a bit crazy
> this...
>
> Thanks


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Brink

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Thanks so much Brink, I was really excited and thought this might solve
my problem as it made sense, my parental controls was set to manual, I
changed it to turn off and it doesn't say start up anymore, but I think
it wasn't started in the first place.

You can guess already, it didn't change a thing. And I keep getting
this User Account management saying "you have started something and we
need your ok to proceed" so I click proceed but don't need a password as
I disabled that. If I start the .exe of the game normal it says Parental
controls doesn't allow for this game to start and if I start the .exe as
administrator it gives me first the ok to need to proceed and then again
Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run.

At whits end, how is it possible this is happening in a new Vista Home
Premium 64 bit I just installed yesterday and haven't been able to do
much...

At whits end with Vista, they warned me, I had no idea it could be this
complicated... Why not a link to "allow this application to run" and it
shows you what you need to do....

Anymore ideas, please?


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Patrick23

Patrick,

As a test, create a new administrator account to see if it gives you
this "Parental Controls" message as well. If not, then can copy the
contents of your old user account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders into
the corresponding new account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders to keep
your settings. After everything checks out ok in the new account, you
can then delete the old one.


Patrick23;1054240 Wrote:
> Thanks so much Brink, I was really excited and thought this might solve
> my problem as it made sense, my parental controls was set to manual, I
> changed it to turn off and it doesn't say start up anymore, but I think
> it wasn't started in the first place.
>
> You can guess already, it didn't change a thing. And I keep getting
> this User Account management saying "you have started something and we
> need your ok to proceed" so I click proceed but don't need a password as
> I disabled that. If I start the .exe of the game normal it says Parental
> controls doesn't allow for this game to start and if I start the .exe as
> administrator it gives me first the ok to need to proceed and then again
> Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run.
>
> At whits end, how is it possible this is happening in a new Vista Home
> Premium 64 bit I just installed yesterday and haven't been able to do
> much...
>
> At whits end with Vista, they warned me, I had no idea it could be this
> complicated... Why not a link to "allow this application to run" and it
> shows you what you need to do....
>
> Anymore ideas, please?


--
Brink

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(https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...5-AD617AF3D511)
*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
them.*
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Brink;1054260 Wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> As a test, create a new administrator account to see if it gives you
> this "Parental Controls" message as well. If not, then can copy the
> contents of your old user account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders into
> the corresponding new account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders to keep
> your settings. After everything checks out ok in the new account, you
> can then delete the old one.
>
>
> > Patrick23;1054240 Wrote:
> > Thanks so much Brink, I was really excited and thought this might solve
> > my problem as it made sense, my parental controls was set to manual, I
> > changed it to turn off and it doesn't say start up anymore, but I think
> > it wasn't started in the first place.
> >
> > You can guess already, it didn't change a thing. And I keep getting
> > this User Account management saying "you have started something and we
> > need your ok to proceed" so I click proceed but don't need a password as
> > I disabled that. If I start the .exe of the game normal it says Parental
> > controls doesn't allow for this game to start and if I start the .exe as
> > administrator it gives me first the ok to need to proceed and then again
> > Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run.
> >
> > At whits end, how is it possible this is happening in a new Vista Home
> > Premium 64 bit I just installed yesterday and haven't been able to do
> > much...
> >
> > At whits end with Vista, they warned me, I had no idea it could be this
> > complicated... Why not a link to "allow this application to run" and it
> > shows you what you need to do....
> >
> > Anymore ideas, please?> >

Thanks Brink, I did, created a new admin account, switched to that
account, tried to run the game normal and as admin, same message
Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to start...


--
Patrick23

Patrick,

I'm afraid that if you are logged into an administrator account, then
I'm not sure why Parental Controls would be active anyway. You might
also try in the 'built-in Administrator'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...r-account.html)
account.

Patrick23;1054267 Wrote:
> > Brink;1054260 Wrote:
> > Patrick,
> >
> > As a test, create a new administrator account to see if it gives you
> > this "Parental Controls" message as well. If not, then can copy the
> > contents of your old user account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders into
> > the corresponding new account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders to keep
> > your settings. After everything checks out ok in the new account, you
> > can then delete the old one.
> >
> >
> > > > Patrick23;1054240 Wrote:
> > > Thanks so much Brink, I was really excited and thought this might solve
> > > my problem as it made sense, my parental controls was set to manual, I
> > > changed it to turn off and it doesn't say start up anymore, but I think
> > > it wasn't started in the first place.
> > >
> > > You can guess already, it didn't change a thing. And I keep getting
> > > this User Account management saying "you have started something and we
> > > need your ok to proceed" so I click proceed but don't need a password as
> > > I disabled that. If I start the .exe of the game normal it says Parental
> > > controls doesn't allow for this game to start and if I start the .exe as
> > > administrator it gives me first the ok to need to proceed and then again
> > > Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to run.
> > >
> > > At whits end, how is it possible this is happening in a new Vista Home
> > > Premium 64 bit I just installed yesterday and haven't been able to do
> > > much...
> > >
> > > At whits end with Vista, they warned me, I had no idea it could be this
> > > complicated... Why not a link to "allow this application to run" and it
> > > shows you what you need to do....
> > >
> > > Anymore ideas, please?> > > > > >
>
> Thanks Brink, I did, created a new admin account, switched to that
> account, tried to run the game normal and as admin, same message
> Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to start...


--
Brink

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*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
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Yes, I don't understand that myself, the administrator should not have
ANY parental controls! Still, the message blocks the game from running,
and I was hoping to keep all in my created admin account...

I must say this is very very bad, NEVER had anything like this, a
patented non violent/etc game that doesn't run due to something nobody
can repair....

What is this...??? Sorry, very frustrated....


Brink;1054271 Wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> I'm afraid that if you are logged into an administrator account, then
> I'm not sure why Parental Controls would be active anyway. You might
> also try in the 'built-in Administrator'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...r-account.html)
> account.
>
> > Patrick23;1054267 Wrote:
> > > > Brink;1054260 Wrote:
> > > Patrick,
> > >
> > > As a test, create a new administrator account to see if it gives you
> > > this "Parental Controls" message as well. If not, then can copy the
> > > contents of your old user account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders into
> > > the corresponding new account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders to keep
> > > your settings. After everything checks out ok in the new account, you
> > > can then delete the old one.
> > >
> > >
> > > > > > >
> >
> > Thanks Brink, I did, created a new admin account, switched to that
> > account, tried to run the game normal and as admin, same message
> > Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to start...> >


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Patrick23

Patric,

Parental controls woks just to accounts that doesn't have administrative
privileges.
I think that your software has some problems to work properly in Windows
Vista.
But try this:
Right click in *.exe file and go to properties. In properties, select
'Compatibility' tab and in compatibility mode, select 'Execute this program
in compatibility mode' and Select Windows XP SP2 and click Ok. It maight
solve your problem.

(Sorry by my english)
Luis Alberto

"Patrick23" <> escreveu na mensagem
news:...
>
> Yes, I don't understand that myself, the administrator should not have
> ANY parental controls! Still, the message blocks the game from running,
> and I was hoping to keep all in my created admin account...
>
> I must say this is very very bad, NEVER had anything like this, a
> patented non violent/etc game that doesn't run due to something nobody
> can repair....
>
> What is this...??? Sorry, very frustrated....
>
>
> Brink;1054271 Wrote:
>> Patrick,
>>
>> I'm afraid that if you are logged into an administrator account, then
>> I'm not sure why Parental Controls would be active anyway. You might
>> also try in the 'built-in Administrator'
>> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...r-account.html)
>> account.
>>
>> > Patrick23;1054267 Wrote:
>> > > > Brink;1054260 Wrote:
>> > > Patrick,
>> > >
>> > > As a test, create a new administrator account to see if it gives you
>> > > this "Parental Controls" message as well. If not, then can copy the
>> > > contents of your old user account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders
>> > > into
>> > > the corresponding new account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders to
>> > > keep
>> > > your settings. After everything checks out ok in the new account, you
>> > > can then delete the old one.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > > > >
>> >
>> > Thanks Brink, I did, created a new admin account, switched to that
>> > account, tried to run the game normal and as admin, same message
>> > Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to start...> >
>
>
> --
> Patrick23

Malware ?

On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:39:03 -0500, Patrick23
<> wrote:

>
>Yes, I don't understand that myself, the administrator should not have
>ANY parental controls! Still, the message blocks the game from running,
>and I was hoping to keep all in my created admin account...
>
>I must say this is very very bad, NEVER had anything like this, a
>patented non violent/etc game that doesn't run due to something nobody
>can repair....
>
>What is this...??? Sorry, very frustrated....
>
>
>Brink;1054271 Wrote:
>> Patrick,
>>
>> I'm afraid that if you are logged into an administrator account, then
>> I'm not sure why Parental Controls would be active anyway. You might
>> also try in the 'built-in Administrator'
>> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...r-account.html)
>> account.
>>
>> > Patrick23;1054267 Wrote:
>> > > > Brink;1054260 Wrote:
>> > > Patrick,
>> > >
>> > > As a test, create a new administrator account to see if it gives you
>> > > this "Parental Controls" message as well. If not, then can copy the
>> > > contents of your old user account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders into
>> > > the corresponding new account's "C:\Users\(user-name)" folders to keep
>> > > your settings. After everything checks out ok in the new account, you
>> > > can then delete the old one.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > > > >
>> >
>> > Thanks Brink, I did, created a new admin account, switched to that
>> > account, tried to run the game normal and as admin, same message
>> > Parental controls doesn't allow for this game to start...> >

No, it turned out the BETA was indeed flawed and a patch needed to be
supplied.
It ran ok after that, but a strange and incorrect message anyway, so I
still attribute this to Vista, PC was disabled so why put up that
message and not a clear indication of the actual problem, as I was put
on the wrong foot by that and stared to look in the wrong direction.

Anyway, thanks everybody for your help.

Jim;1054798 Wrote:
> Malware ?
>
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:39:03 -0500, Patrick23
> <> wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > >Yes, I don't understand that myself, the administrator should not have
> > >ANY parental controls! Still, the message blocks the game from
> > running,
> > >and I was hoping to keep all in my created admin account...
> > >
> > >I must say this is very very bad, NEVER had anything like this, a
> > >patented non violent/etc game that doesn't run due to something nobody
> > >can repair....
> > >
> > >What is this...??? Sorry, very frustrated....
> > >
> > >
> > >Brink;1054271 Wrote:> > > > >
> > > >> Patrick,
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm afraid that if you are logged into an administrator account,
> > > then
> > > >> I'm not sure why Parental Controls would be active anyway. You might
> > > >> also try in the 'built-in Administrator'
> > > >> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...r-account.html)
> > > >> account.
> > > >>> > > > > >


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Patrick23