dunno if this is the appropiate forum to ask but In order to run a mod for a game I want to play I need to run the steam program as Administrator, I never have made an admin account on my windows XP my user is logged in as just the letter D so if I try right click the steam "run as" then I choose administrator it says "unknown username or bad password" how can I fix this?

Just at the thread title

Me too!

Mark

+1

Can you creat a new user with admin rights?

dont understand whats so funny how would I go about doing that? computer savvy = no more

Control Panel > Users > create new user

Mark

It's a heck of a question round these parts

well I tried to right click my computer/manage/add admin etc etc double clicking Administrators in Computer Management get as far as it saying "enter object names to select (examples)

and if I go into my control panel and look at letter D user it says its already a computer administrator WTF

Rather than looking at D, try creating a new user with admin rights through control panel -> users etc

when I do that and login as it, I have no access to steam or any of my programs my backround image is "bliss" too

I think if you go into windows via safe mode, the administrator account should be available and you could try giving the D account admin rights from there.

What confuses me is that if the D account is the only account on the computer, then it should automatically have admin rights anyway.

That's what I thought too, but it didn't seem pertinent as he stated D was the only account.

David, how many accounts are listed in the Users control panel?

Mark

If you have the "Steam" icon on your desktop what happens if you right click on it and pick "run as administrator" ?

just my D account that says "computer administrator"

but if I "run as" on the steam icon theres my D and someone called "Administrator" but I cant use that as theres no pw set

nvm got it working, someone forgot to verify cache on both programs and "test run" both to integrate the keys