Told to "Log in as administrator" when trying to run an old game

Anonymous
2015-08-21T19:35:14+00:00

I just upgraded to Windows 10.  I tried running an old game, which was doing OK on Windows 8.  I get "access denied" when I hit start, and a message telling me to log in as administrator and try again.

I am the administrator.

So what can I do?

Thanks.

* Original title: "Log in as administrator"

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Anonymous
2019-01-02T02:07:23+00:00

This ancient thread should have been locked long ago, but since they haven't done so...

This error is bogus in relation to trying to play old disc based games.

It has nothing to do with running as admin. MS built a 'security feature' into Win10 - DRM Blocking.

I have full details about this so called 'security feature' and why it p revents disc based games from

launching in my post at  --- this thread---

Short story - Old disc based games that use SafeDisk copy protection require using a noCD fix/hack to circumvent DRM Blocking.

btw - This 'feature' was also added to Win7/8/8.1 via a security update (as explained in my linked post) .

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-12-16T20:16:59+00:00

    I want to log in verify my McAfee renewal

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-05T19:20:05+00:00

    I just upgraded to Windows 10.  I tried running an old game, which was doing OK on Windows 8.  I get "access denied" when I hit start, and a message telling me to log in as administrator and try again.

    I am the administrator.

    So what can I do?

    Thanks.

    I am the administrato

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-09-30T04:52:30+00:00

    I do not remember the problem, sorry. Please restate, thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-22T21:53:56+00:00

    Does the registry setting that the Reply here had me make to alter a Value to 1 affect me in any way when I just log in normally? If it doesn't, then obviously this Question was the wrong one to follow originally and I should change the registry back to what it was set at since it isn't doing what I want and it is too risky to have the icon on the desktop prior to logging in as me that lets anyone who wants to, to log in to my computer as some generic Administrator and mess things up along with the fact that then I need to figure out later how to have it not automatically log me in as that generic Administrator everytime in the future until I take the steps that I listed in my last Reply and that's IF I remember what to do.

    The problem is though, I can't remember what the 10 digit number was that the Value had been set to and I thought that I'd written it in an earlier Reply of mine and maybe even added a PrintScreen image or photo but I don't find one here or anywhere. I really need to ask for some help to take it back to how it was. Can I have help please?

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