: Vista Premium: User account error 1925


jcol
2007-02-10, 05:57 PM
I have a new computer with Vista Premium. I discovered that my AVI video files will not play with Media Player, I get sound but not picture. Some research suggested that I needed to download and install a Codec package . I downloaded one that seems to be working well for other people. During the install I get the following error message:Error 1925 You do not have sufficient priviledges to complete this installation for all users of this computer. Log on as an administrator and try the install again. Well, there are only 2 accounts on this machine and I was logged in on the administrator account. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

hugh
2007-02-10, 07:13 PM
Can you Right click the installation file and click on "Run as Administrator"

jcol
2007-02-12, 09:14 AM
Thanks Hugh,

I'll give that a try and report back.

sleemo
2007-02-13, 07:44 AM
Has that changed in Vista? It always used to be that you had to hold the shift key down while right-clicking the file and choosing "Run As..." and then you choose the administrator account.

Jake
2007-02-13, 08:34 AM
Since he was logged in as ADMIN I doubt those suggestions will work. What codec pack did you try to install? You mentioned AVI so I imagine you are talking XVID or DIVX right?

For the DIVX codecs get them at http://divx.com.
For the XVID codecs get them at http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml

jcol
2007-02-13, 10:35 AM
Right clicking and using "Run as an Administrator" allowed the install to go through. As Jake pointed out since I was already logged in as an administrator I was surprised that it worked - guess it Vista needs to be really sure about things before it allows such an install. My AVI file now plays fine through Media Player. The package I downloaded was called Vista Codec Package V4.2.6

thanks for the help.