I have both an admin account and user account on a domain. This is a freshly imaged computer, from an old image that all the other IT users are using. We are running Windows XP 32bit, sp3, all Microsoft updates.
When signed into my user account I cannot use the cmd prompt to run explorer.exe as admin. The same is still happening in the and vice versa. When signed into my admin account I cannot run explorer.exe as user. I don’t really see a reason in the latter, but I just tried it to test it out.
Any ideas why I cannot run explorer.exe as admin? I’m not trying to run the explorer GUI, but more so Windows Explorer to navigate through system files.
I have also tried running Internet Explorer as admin and am getting an error of :
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplorer.exe
The directory name is invalid.
Other programs in the windows directory is still runnable as admin. Notepad, calculator, I can even run the cmd as admin. Looks to be an explorer issue as far as I can tell.
I have also tried my credentials from another computer and still run into the same issue. So it may not be a local issue, possibly within the permissions of my admin or user accounts?
Any assistance would be helpful, thanks!