"Nickie Katharina Foenshauge" wrote in message

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The registration window that pops up when I try to register calls for me
to enter the "unlock code," which I guess is the same as the registration code. Under the box where you enter the code number, it says "you must

have

system administrator privileges for your registration code to be activated on this computer," which I suppose is why the "unlock now" button won't work.

I have never encountered this problem before. This computer is my sole
property. There is no "system administrator."

What the heck is going on?

If you are running XP, there must be at least one system administrator account, which probably is the one you are logged onto by default, judging from the way you describe your computer :~) If not, switch to the administrator account. It's easy to check out if you are running the right account: if you can install programs, you have administrator rights, if

not,

you don't have the right rights.

All this said and done, you may have to type the code the good old

fashioned

way. No cutting n' pasting! At least that's what I discovered, when I registered Photoshop Album.

I hope this helped you find the heck.

Good luck.

Not all programs require Administrator privileges to install so this may be a new problem for Allen.

If he is running XP with the welcome screen it is not easy for him to see how to "switch to" the Administrator account or even see he running within an "account" if he is not signing in at startup.

Something else you could try Allen is to right click on the PSE icon that you use to start the program up. In the menu that pops up left click on the "run as" item. This will bring up a little dialog box. In the dialog box click on "The following user" radio button and choose Administrator from the drop-down box.

Allen, if you are the one that installed the operating system (or first turned a new machine that the OS was installed on) then the probability is the Administrator account has no password on it. In this case, do not put a password in the password box in the dialog box.

Then entering your activation code.

For your own protection, though, read up a little on accounts in XP, assign a password to the Administrator account run XP with a different account that doesn't have Administrator privileges. You can always run Setup programs as an Administrator as I have described above.

Doug_Emerick

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