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UnicornElephant wrote on 2012-02-26 10:29
Is there any way I could avoid the whole admin permission thing for Mabi? My laptop doesn't acknowledge me as an admin because it's my friend computer. However he's gone in Russia until November and I have no way of contacting him, he doesn't even have facebook. I really could use some advice. :beg:
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Akemii wrote on 2012-02-26 10:31
Make a new user that's an admin? :U
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UnicornElephant wrote on 2012-02-26 10:33
Doesn't let me make any new account, and I tried in safe mode but that didn't work either. :fail3:
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Akemii wrote on 2012-02-26 10:43
Are there multiple users in your computer?
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UnicornElephant wrote on 2012-02-26 10:44
Just his and my account don't know password though. :/
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Akemii wrote on 2012-02-26 10:46
Nothing you can do then, I'm pretty sure the "run as admin" option can't be checked for Mabinogi, anyways. It really shouldn't be that annoying! I don't mind doing it.
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UnicornElephant wrote on 2012-02-26 10:47
Meh, oh well thanks for trying to help. :pick:
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Akemii wrote on 2012-02-26 10:48
Sorry :(
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Rydian wrote on 2012-02-26 11:54
The reason mabinogi needs admin rights is because it's using ass-old methods that try to write to a protected area (global C drive).
Try installing it to a folder on your desktop, it may not need admin rights then... but the issue there is you may not be able to reinstall it without admin rights (because of hackshield), so maybe moving the entire nexon folder might work... but Idunno'.
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Osayidan wrote on 2012-02-26 22:08
Get something like hiren's boot CD and remove the password to an admin account, log in and promote your own account to admin.
Local user accounts on windows are completely insecure.
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elumini wrote on 2012-02-28 04:50
My suggestion:
If you're the administrator of the PC and don't mind disabling UAC (User Account Control)...
Press the "Start" button on bottom left, type "msconfig" into the text box and hit enter. Select the 'Tools' tab and highlight Change UAC Settings (if Win7) or Disable UAC (if WinVista). Launch the tool.
If in Windows 7, you get a slider bar that you can adjust. You can fully disable it by sliding it to the bottom and apply the setting. Restart PC and you should never have to be requested for Admin Rights to anything.
However, this comes with side-effects, your PC won't be protected from scripts that may run by themselves. (if fully disabled) This is considering if you get viruses/trojans often.
But then again you don't have access to Admin account, so you'd have to find a way to access it or ask your friend for the password.
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Rydian wrote on 2012-03-04 23:24
If they had admin access they wouldn't have to deal with this.
If they get the person to disable UAC but still don't have admin access, then they still won't be able to run the game.
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Knightmehre wrote on 2012-03-06 05:04
I'll tell you how if you stop saying moo.
Quote from Rydian;796176:
If they had admin access they wouldn't have to deal with this.
If they get the person to disable UAC but still don't have admin access, then they still won't be able to run the game.
there is a way
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Rydian wrote on 2012-03-07 06:55
By running it as another account from under the limited... but the other account has to have admin access anyways and they have to have access to that admin account to authorize the running...