Administrative Right on Windows 98

[monahan]

I've an old PC at home running Windows 98. Everything works fine on it but at the weekend I tried to install some software and I got an error message saying that I need administrative rights to install the software. So I right clicked on the start button and sure enough the "Explore All Users" option is not available. The truth is I'm not sure if I ever had admin rights on the machine but I have installed software before. The problem is there is no login which would allow me to login as an administrator. I'm just wondering how can I get administrative rights on the computer? Is it possible? If I had administrative right, how did I lose them?

Thanking you in advance

Mike

 

[wolluf]

win98 doesn't have administrative rights as such - just wondering on the history of your machine - whether its had some policies applied to it (the only way I know of to remove 'admin' rights) - eg, did it use to be on a network on a domain?

 

[zeitghost]

I remember getting a similar message years ago... it's just 98 thinking that it's NT...

I rebooted & it went away.

 

[monahan]

It was never part of a network but I know that I got a virus about a year ago. Maybe that affected the machine in such a way. Thanks for your help