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**Brink** · 05-26-2009

Hello Conficker,

I'm not sure what you are trying to do using this. I looked in my secpol.msc. and by default, Administrator accounts have privileges for "Debug Programs". You might see if using the built-in Administrator account may work better for you with it.

Administrator Account

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Quote: Originally Posted by Conficker

Hi,

Is there anybody in this world who can tell me:
HOW TO ADD "DEBUG PROGRAMS" PRIVILEGE TO MY ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT IN VISTA HOME PREMIUM?

I have posted this question on many forums, and haven't got appropriate answer yet. It is pretty frustrating that most people, even the moderators of some forums, don't know that SECPOL.MSC and GPEDIT.MSC tools are definitely not available in Home editions of XP and Vista.

But let's get to the problem.
Like I said, I have Vista Home Premium 32bit installed on my laptop, and I run it with Administrator account.
For some reasons I need to add "Debug programs" privilege to my account.
This wouldn't be such a problem if I could use secpol.msc or gpedit.msc. But I cannot because these tools are not available in Home Premium. Whenever I try to run them by typing their names in Run dialog, after I hit Enter I get the message:
"Windows cannot find 'secpol.msc'(/'gpedit.msc'). Make sure you typed the name correctly, and try again".

I have lost plenty of time searching the WEB before I found out that these two tools are excluded from Home editions of Vista (and XP). Some smart guys in Microsoft decided that they are not necessary as most of the settings that can be done with them are nothing but plain registry settings. So they left us users to use Regedit tool instead.

OK, now I am aware that, in order to assign "Debug programs" privilege tu my user rights, I have to mess with Registry. We all know how dangerous it can be, especially for a newbie like me. I can't even imagine which entries should I have to add or modify there.

So I'd appreciate very much if someone could give me detailed, step by step, instructions - how to add "Debug programs" privilege to my Administrator account through the Registry.

Thanks in advance.

05-26-2009	#2 (permalink)
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 26,096 posts	Re: Adding privileges to an account Hello Conficker, I'm not sure what you are trying to do using this. I looked in my secpol.msc. and by default, Administrator accounts have privileges for "Debug Programs". You might see if using the built-in Administrator account may work better for you with it. Administrator Account Hope this helps, Shawn Quote: Originally Posted by Conficker Hi, Is there anybody in this world who can tell me: HOW TO ADD "DEBUG PROGRAMS" PRIVILEGE TO MY ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT IN VISTA HOME PREMIUM? I have posted this question on many forums, and haven't got appropriate answer yet. It is pretty frustrating that most people, even the moderators of some forums, don't know that SECPOL.MSC and GPEDIT.MSC tools are definitely not available in Home editions of XP and Vista. But let's get to the problem. Like I said, I have Vista Home Premium 32bit installed on my laptop, and I run it with Administrator account. For some reasons I need to add "Debug programs" privilege to my account. This wouldn't be such a problem if I could use secpol.msc or gpedit.msc. But I cannot because these tools are not available in Home Premium. Whenever I try to run them by typing their names in Run dialog, after I hit Enter I get the message: "Windows cannot find 'secpol.msc'(/'gpedit.msc'). Make sure you typed the name correctly, and try again". I have lost plenty of time searching the WEB before I found out that these two tools are excluded from Home editions of Vista (and XP). Some smart guys in Microsoft decided that they are not necessary as most of the settings that can be done with them are nothing but plain registry settings. So they left us users to use Regedit tool instead. OK, now I am aware that, in order to assign "Debug programs" privilege tu my user rights, I have to mess with Registry. We all know how dangerous it can be, especially for a newbie like me. I can't even imagine which entries should I have to add or modify there. So I'd appreciate very much if someone could give me detailed, step by step, instructions - how to add "Debug programs" privilege to my Administrator account through the Registry. Thanks in advance.
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