This problem has only recently arisen. "You do not have sufficient
security priviliges to install devices on
this computer. Please contact your site administrator, or log out and
log in again as an administrator and try again."
This is a private computer and I have tried logging in as the administrator.

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 21 Jun 2006 23:09 PDT

Howdy johnny3633-ga,

Could you please try the procedures on the following page and see if it takes
care of your problem?  Thanks!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

GOOD

very good.

ask your system administrator for admin privledges? or you can always
go on the administrators name by hitting f8 during boot..only problem
is you need to know the administrators password

- Log in as administrator
- Start, Run, Gpedit.msc
- Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local
Policies, User Rights Assignment
- Add your normal username into Load and Unload Device Drivers

That should sort it out

You should either render administrator permissions for the account you
use, or use "Administrator" account to operate your devices. Anyway
you should login with it first. You'll have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del two
times at the login screen and enter this nick manually to do it. Now,
if you want your user's account to operate the devices you will be
able to do the thing delcara-ga told about.

If you can't remember Administrator Passoword, you have to reset this
password. As this account is very important for the system, you can't
do this very easy. You have 3 options:

One method of gaining access to the system is by trying hard to
remember the forgotten password, or a password of another user which
has the same level of administrative rights. However I don't think
this approach will help you, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here
reading article, would you?)

Another method is by trying to restore a backed up System State (in
Windows 2000/XP/2003) or a ERD (in NT 4.0) in which you do remember
the password. The problem with doing so is that you'll probably lose
all of the recently add users and groups, and all the changed
passwords for all of your users since the last backup was made.

A third method might be to install a parallel operating system on a
different partition on the same computer, then use a simple trick to
gain access to the old system. Read more about it on my Forgot the
Administrator's Password? - Alternate Logon Trick article.

The fourth option is by using 3rd party tools that will enable you to
reset the lost password and logon with a blank password.


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Utility to reset your Administrator Password
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid
(local) account on your NT system, by modifying the crypted password
in the registrys SAM file.  You do not need to know the old password
to set a new one.

It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot
off a floppydisk. The bootdisk includes stuff to access NTFS
partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together. Note: It will
now also work with SYSKEY, including the option to turn it off!
More information here: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Download here: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

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Hope that this answers your question. Regards.

Fernando