run a program as administrator
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by William Tumlin
(1 messages posted)
If I right-click an application program icon on my windows desktop, select "run as",
select "administrator" and enter my administrator password, I get "logon failure:
unknown user name or bad password."
The only "user" of windows is myself as an administrator.
The OS is Windows XP Professional (32-bit) version
5.1.2600.
Is this a "normal problem" for Windows XP or is something amiss in the user account
setup area (or elsewhere?) I originally set up the admin account with no password.
That worked fine until I now have an application that must "run as administrator,"
so I set up my account with a real password. Now when I start up windows I must
enter that password; but the AP right-click and "run as" feature still refuses to
accept what I enter. I would think that when I log on as an adminstrator that the
right-click "run as" feature would be redundant and grayed out as a selection.
I later set up a limited user account, logged onto Windows as that account and tried
the same right-click, "run as," select Admin, enter Admin's password and got the
same result.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bill T.
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