i really do. i cant f**king do anything. im constantly being told to log onto the admin account to install anything, and then i do, yet it still wont work half the time. i could not for the life of me get limewire to work. it was fully installed, but thanks to the 50million virus scans and the like, i couldnt connect to it, even once i did say to allow it. and although the sims 2 will work on the admin account, i cant use it on mine. i cant use aim express anymore because of my millions of popup blockers, but it wont let me download it either.

im extremely annoyed right now, so im not entirely sure what my point is; rather this was meant to ask for help or just to rant. oh well, reply as you see fit. if it gathers spam or just genreally dies, ill close it, i suppose

Do you share your computer? Maybe if the administrator of your computer changes your account from limited to admin, you'll be able to do the same stuff. Check and see if you have a limited account.

Sorry if this doesn't help.

i actually tried that. i changed my own account to admin () and whatever i was trying to do at the time still wouldnt work

ok, good advice, but how do you do that? lol\

EDIT

nvm, i figured it out

check the privacy in the account where the programs are installed.. if the folders are private.. then you maynot be able to use them from your account...

It's actually pretty inefficient to run in XP as a normal user, which is why most people log in as an administrator, which is why there are so many security vulnerabilities in Windows...

For your AIM problem you can always use AIM QuickBuddy (pretty much the same thing as AIM Express).

that might not be a bad thing

I don't like Windows XP either. It's really vulnerable to adware/spyware and it's really slow. They try too hard to be all advanced, but it's a hassle most of the time. But if it's such a problem for you, maybe you should seek some help from like some computer company or something and they can help you make your going about easier. Don't just sit there.

^its a family computer. i dont have control of these things. they dont like it when i mess with things, which is why i get in trouble constantly anyway because i do


what might not be a bad thing? the fact that i cant do anything? no, that is really really not a good thing. i cant get this ellumination program thing to downloaad that i need for my online courses. and how the hell am i supposed to live without even the option of aim express?quick buddy doesnt work either, been there, tried that.

Its always a 1D10T error, dont blame the OS or the computer, it almost always ends up being the users.

u should get a new bersion caus i got it and mines fine

try reinstalling now that you're admin..

You're telling me the BSODs are my fault?

Also see how I said "almost always" not always...

just pointing out that it's not as flawless as you make it seem to be.

I only have one account on my computer
[jerry]

Windows XP hates YOU.

maybe if you're in Soviet Russia.[/yakov]

Here's one thing I hate about Windows XP: that stupid "You have X unread mail messages" note that appears on the Welcome screen when you lock your console. It's nice when it works--but that's the thing, it hardly ever works. It keeps telling me I have two unread mail messages, and I don't. How hard is it to write a feature into an operating system that checks for the number of unread mail messages and displays it on the screen? Not very damn hard. Here's what you do: you write a function to get the number of unread mail messages, and then you display them on the screen; then you write a nice API so developers can tap into that functionality with their software. It's not too damn hard to get it right! But of course, Microsoft can't even do that properly. It astounds me that this bug--which is so common that TweakXP.exe even has "Fix unread mail count" as an option--is still present in Windows XP SP 2. That's right, after two service packs, the "feature" is still broken. For those of you who don't know, Service Pack 2 means, in layman's terms, "the second big f**king update to Windows that is supposed to have fixed most of the bugs present in the release version". But no, after two SP's, this stupid function--which I didn't even turn on, nor can find a simple place in my user options to turn off--still does not work. Gah.

wow sounds uh......woooooooow lol well if you didnt like window xp then why you get it

Well, unfortunately, because it runs on cheap hardware, and it's the most compatible software available.

yep, thats really the only reason windows survives. Not the OS, just the fact at it is the most widely compatible. If some how,(amazingly) something similar to the Rosetta stone idea from OS X intel, could be made for Windows apps to run on other systems..the world would be alot less...windowish.