Trawled the forums looking for a solution but just discovered this isn't
working now !
Media player won't start from the menu, from running the exe, from anywhere
unlewss I run it as an administrator. And my account is an administrator
account anyway !
Presumably this is down to some permissions thing, how that happened I just
don't know as the only things that have been installed on this pc recently
are Windows updates, and a new version of Windows Live.
I'm running Home Premium 32 Bit. Help ?
Windows Media player only runs as administrator
- 10 Mar 2008 #1
Mark Dee GuestMy System SpecsWindows Media player only runs as administrator
- 20 Mar 2008 #2
Scott GuestMy System SpecsRE: Windows Media player only runs as administrator
I, too, have been searching for answers to this problem. Also running Vista
Home Premium, just Windows Updates, no other installs... I can run WMP
normally from an account I set up for my kids, but I have to do that annoying
"run as admin" thing from my own administrator account. Any experts out
there know why this is going on? Thanks!
"Mark Dee" wrote:
> Trawled the forums looking for a solution but just discovered this isn't
> working now !
>
> Media player won't start from the menu, from running the exe, from anywhere
> unlewss I run it as an administrator. And my account is an administrator
> account anyway !
>
> Presumably this is down to some permissions thing, how that happened I just
> don't know as the only things that have been installed on this pc recently
> are Windows updates, and a new version of Windows Live.
>
> I'm running Home Premium 32 Bit. Help ?
- 21 Mar 2008 #3
Mark Dee GuestMy System SpecsRE: Windows Media player only runs as administrator
Scott, try a registry cleaner. I have, it detected over 1100 issues and
fixed them all, that may not be the answer as I ran some other stuff as well
but a clean registry is a good place to start.
"Scott" wrote:
> I, too, have been searching for answers to this problem. Also running Vista
> Home Premium, just Windows Updates, no other installs... I can run WMP
> normally from an account I set up for my kids, but I have to do that annoying
> "run as admin" thing from my own administrator account. Any experts out
> there know why this is going on? Thanks!
>
> "Mark Dee" wrote:
>
> > Trawled the forums looking for a solution but just discovered this isn't
> > working now !
> >
> > Media player won't start from the menu, from running the exe, from anywhere
> > unlewss I run it as an administrator. And my account is an administrator
> > account anyway !
> >
> > Presumably this is down to some permissions thing, how that happened I just
> > don't know as the only things that have been installed on this pc recently
> > are Windows updates, and a new version of Windows Live.
> >
> > I'm running Home Premium 32 Bit. Help ?
Windows Media player only runs as administrator
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