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
    2018-01-05T02:50:58+00:00

    I am already login to administer mode and it does not work when I tried to run a game off my hard drive.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-09-09T14:33:34+00:00

    i want a administrator account but it will not work help me please.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-31T23:43:12+00:00

    how do I sing in to windows/my computer as administrator

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-07-17T14:21:07+00:00

    Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

    I will be glad to assist you with the issue you are experiencing with the computer. I understand the difficulty when things won’t work the way they should.

    I would require some more information to help you better.

    1. What is the make & model of the computer?
    2. Do you sign in through Microsoft/Local account on Windows 10?
    3. Do you get any error message while playing/installing game?
    4. [snip]

    I am not able to login as administrator above provided solution because I removed to administrator privilege to my user so then when I am trying to activate admin privilege after using as description to enable admin user like 

    1. Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard and select **Command prompt (Admin)**and click on yeson the prompted window.

    Yes on prompted window is disabled. 

    I am not able to work as administrator or I need to format system. 

    Regards 

    Prashansh

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