Hello,
I started having the strangest problem lately. The last couple of programs I installed ( games actually ? Medal of Honor Breakthrough and Call of Duty) will not even load or attempt to start. Instead I get an error message of ?Access Denied ? Please login with administrator privileges and try again?.
This is a single user computer and I believe I am the computer administrator. However I have also tried to log on as ?Administrator? (with the appropriate password) and get another error message that says ?Logon Message – Unable to log you on because of an account restriction?.
I have tried changing administrator passwords from the DOS window, using the command
? net user administrator newpassword?. This command completes successfully but does not help my problem.
The computer is a 1 year old Dell Dimension 8200, P4 cpu @ 2.53 MHZ, 1 Gig RAM, 120 GB HD, etc, operating system is Windows XP Home edition. It is networked (hardwired with cable) with an older Dell XPS B800r through a Linksys 4 port wireless router.
The only other problem I have had recently is that the last 3 ?critical updates? for windows will not install. They downloaded to my computer OK, but I get an error message that the ?..install failed?try again?. I have tried again with same results. I don?t know if this problem is related to the game not running problem, but I am getting suspicious.
I have searched the knowledge data base and the Dell database and the game makers database but cannot find any help for this problem. I think something in the operating system (registry??) may be corrupted. I hope you can help with this problem.
Thanks,
Ralph Knight
r.e.knight@juno.coom