Hi,
This is sort of a hardware/OS question. I just bought a laptop, and went to install a WiFI card and drivers, but couldn't. I got this popup:
"Only a user with administrator privileges can run this installation. Current user does not have this privilege"
By the way, the OS is win 98. So I checked out the users and there were several, one matched the previous owner, so I deleted the users and passwords and rebooted. Then I was able to create a username and password. I went to install and once again, and the same problem. So I thought I'd uninstall and reinstall win 98, except even after 40 minutes of "deleting" files, it still rebooted to the previous setup. So I changed the registered owner and the product key to the win 98 that I had, and tried again. Same thing, I couldn't install the drivers, no administrator privileges. I looked up the issue with win 98 and found this:
Windows 9x/Me doesn't have user privileges (there is no administrator). Most likely
you have a policy in place. Run REGEDIT and remove the following two keys. If the
policy is such that it won't allow you run REGEDIT, boot to real-mode DOS from floppy
or CD-ROM and merge the following REG file. Copy/paste the text into Notepad and save
as C:\NOPOLICY.REG. Use the command: REGEDIT /S C:\NOPOLICY.REG to merge the file from
DOS.

REGEDIT4
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[COLOR=blue! important]Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies]

The problem is, I don't understand the directions. I don't know how to use regedit, I typed it to the run window and got a registry editor window, that I don't know how to use.
Could someone plese explain how I delete the lines it tells me to and merge the other ones it say to do, or maybe you have a better, easier solution.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Don
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hello, when you were deleting files, were you using the os disk to format the hard drive and reinstall the os? - if so i cannot see why you are having problems, but then again i am not familiar with the win98 os.As for the regedit, i may be clutching at straws but you should locate the keys- but they have not been specified, back them up somewhere and delete them. Like i implied before i am not sure. Sorry

You need to open Wordpad and copy paste the 3 lines starting with regedit4 into it. Make sure there is no space in the word current on line 2 like there is in the example above.

Then click file > save as and name the file nopolicy.reg - make sure is saved directly to c:\

Boot to DOS mode with a win98 startup disc - then type in

REGEDIT /S C:\NOPOLICY.REG

Let me know if it still doesn't work.