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Originally Posted by jww41005
By the way, a while ago I tried installing SH3 using the Starforce removal tool and I got an error that said:
To install the application, you must have Administator privileges on your computer.
What does this mean?
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User accounts in windows come in 2 flavours. It is either a simple day-to-day user that is not allowed to do technical dangerous stuff like installing programs, but can start up programs or read-only security sensitive areas. Or the account is of the Administrator type, which can pretty much do anything it wants with the operating system. Including screw things up if you don't know what you are doing, or are infected with a worm/virus. This seperation of accounttypes was also there in Windows XP but everyone was made of the administrator type by default. Starting with Vista only the first user account (created at operating system installation) is made of the administrator type. But there is also a built-in administrator acount hidden. All account created after it are simple users with limited rights to do things. Unless an administrator account promotes a simple useraccount to also become part of the administrators. You appearantly have the 'simple user' variety. Ask someone who administrates your pc to perform the Starforce removal. Or log on with that 'very first' user account to do it yourself if you know the password.