Please read and respond

[Guest Jim]

I would appreciate someone responding to this post.

 

 

 

Can anyone explain to me why a NEW account that has 'Administrator'

privileges not be able to view videos in IE7 the same as the Administrator

account?

 

 

 

My problem appeared unexpectedly. I previously had an account that had

'Admin' privileges, and then all of a sudden I was unable to view videos in

IE7. I tried all of the various suggestions offered by Adobe (uninstall

Flash, run sublnACL, etc.) without success. Totally disgusted, I created a

new account with 'Admin' privileges.

 

 

 

After moving files and settings as outlined in various KB articles, I had

SUCCESS; but only for ONE day. Upon logging into IE7 the next day, I was

presented with the same problem I originally had; not being able to view

video, and not being able to download files from the Internet.

 

 

 

I've done all of the things that might be suggested; virus scans, spyware

scans, deleting temp files, deleting history files from IE (weren't that

many for one day) etc. and still no joy.

 

 

 

The irony is, I can run IE7 from the new account as 'Administrator' and

everything works great. I can log into the Administrator account and

everything works great! The problem is, I can run IE in my new account and

have it display videos or download files.

 

 

 

One would think that if there were a block in the firewall, it also would

affect the Administrator account as well, so I have ruled that out. I am at

wits end as to why this continues to happen.

 

 

 

Is there something about my original account that causes a problem (since I

copied all of my settings, etc.), or does one really have 'Administrator'

privileges when they become a member of the Administrators group?

 

 

 

I really would appreciate someone shedding some light as to what is going on

here. This is driving me crazy.

 

 

 

System:

 

XP Pro SP2 Up-to-date

 

IE7

 

ZoneAlarm AntiVirus

 

Spybot Search & Destroy

 

Flash Player 9.0.124.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

--

Jim

"What we know is minuscule to what we don't know..."

[Guest Jim]

Re: Please read and respond

 

Correction:

The problem is, I can NOT run IE in my new account and

have it display videos or download files.

 

 

 

--

Jim

"What we know is minuscule to what we don't know..."

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: Please read and respond

 

Jim <j_outlerNOSPAM@bellsouth.net> wrote on Sun, 15 Jun 2008:

>Correction:

>The problem is, I can NOT run IE in my new account and

>have it display videos or download files.

>

Hi Jim

 

Have you checked the Privacy settings in ZoneAlarm? (Privacy | Main tab

| Mobile Code Control | Custom). If the option "Block mime-type

integrated objects" is checked, un-check it.

 

If this doesn't apply, have you tried downloading/running videos in

another browser to see if it has the same problem?

 

--

Nightowl

[Guest Jim]

Re: Please read and respond

 

Nightowl,

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

Your suggestion is only available to those that own ZoneAlarm Pro or

ZoneAlarm Security Suite. I am using a registered version of ZoneAlarm

Anti-virus.

 

The irony is, I was able to surf earlier today and see videos, but in the

middle of viewing one it just stopped and the area where the video frame (on

YouTube) reside went blank. I just logged off. Have not returned to see if

the situation is still the same or not; it comes and goes! Driving me

crazy.

 

Again, thanks for the suggestion.

 

--

Jim

"What we know is minuscule to what we don't know..."

[Guest GHalleck]

Re: Please read and respond

 

 

Jim wrote:

> I would appreciate someone responding to this post.

>

> Can anyone explain to me why a NEW account that has 'Administrator'

> privileges not be able to view videos in IE7 the same as the Administrator

> account?

>

> My problem appeared unexpectedly. I previously had an account that had

> 'Admin' privileges, and then all of a sudden I was unable to view videos in

> IE7. I tried all of the various suggestions offered by Adobe (uninstall

> Flash, run sublnACL, etc.) without success. Totally disgusted, I created a

> new account with 'Admin' privileges.

>

> After moving files and settings as outlined in various KB articles, I had

> SUCCESS; but only for ONE day. Upon logging into IE7 the next day, I was

> presented with the same problem I originally had; not being able to view

> video, and not being able to download files from the Internet.

>

> I've done all of the things that might be suggested; virus scans, spyware

> scans, deleting temp files, deleting history files from IE (weren't that

> many for one day) etc. and still no joy.

>

> The irony is, I can run IE7 from the new account as 'Administrator' and

> everything works great. I can log into the Administrator account and

> everything works great! The problem is, I can run IE in my new account and

> have it display videos or download files.

>

> One would think that if there were a block in the firewall, it also would

> affect the Administrator account as well, so I have ruled that out. I am at

> wits end as to why this continues to happen.

>

> Is there something about my original account that causes a problem (since I

> copied all of my settings, etc.), or does one really have 'Administrator'

> privileges when they become a member of the Administrators group?

>

> I really would appreciate someone shedding some light as to what is going on

> here. This is driving me crazy.

>

> System:

>

> XP Pro SP2 Up-to-date

>

> IE7

>

> ZoneAlarm AntiVirus

>

> Spybot Search & Destroy

>

> Flash Player 9.0.124.0

>

>

>

 

Something is missing in the original post. Just what websites are

involved when the video viewing issues occur? Do these sites requre

unique logons? Were these logons "automated", that is the computer

providing the stored logon name and password?

 

The direction I am going is that the problem is not with administrator

privileges but with the logon name with the administrator privileges.

When the new account was created, was the user profile copied to the

new user? (I presume that the original user profile is "Administrator".

Creating a new user or logon also generates a new "default" profile.

[Guest Jim]

Re: Please read and respond

 

GHalleck,

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

I did make a mistake in the original post, which was corrected in the

subsequent reply post by me:

 

Correction:

The problem is, I can NOT run IE in my new account and

have it display videos or download files.

 

When the new user account was created, it was created with a different user

name but the files in 'Document and Settings\olduser' folder were copied

from my original corrupted account that was an 'Admin' account with the

exception of NTUser.dat and NTUser.ini. The old corrupted account and the

new corrupted account both have 'Admin' privilege.

 

My next step is to check all of the settings in the default Administrator

account and match them against the new account to see if there are

differences.

 

--

Jim

"What we know is minuscule to what we don't know..."