INITIALIZATION ERROR

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JAYYOLA
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INITIALIZATION ERROR

Post by JAYYOLA » Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:01 am

I KEEP GETTING A MESSAGE DAT SAYS "INITIALIZATION ERROR: INSUFFICIENT USER PRIVLEDGES TO START LOW LEVEL DRIVER" EVERYTIME I START-UP DA AUDACITY PROGRAM. IM NOT TO SHO, BUT I THANC IT GAWTTA DO WIT THE, HARMONY VST PLUGIN I INSTALLED BY ANTARES, OR ANY UTHA UF MA NEWWEST VST'Z IM NOT SHO DOE... ANY HELP R INFO WILL B GOOD, MAYNE...

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Re: INITIALIZATION ERROR

Post by waxcylinder » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:52 am

IIRC you may need administrator privileges for your account to run Audacity.

And please don't SHOUT ! :)

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Re: INITIALIZATION ERROR

Post by waxcylinder » Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:28 am

jayyola wrote in a PM:
JAYYOLA wrote:U POSTED DIZ AS A REPLY TO MY POST: IIRC you may need administrator privileges for your account to run Audacity... SO I JUZ WAWNA KNO HOW CAN I GO BOUT GETTN DEM ADMINISTRATOR PRIVLEDGES...PRECIATE DA 411, MAYNE....
Administrator privileges are a Windows issue not an Audacity one. If it is your own PC all you need to do is to ensure that you run Audacity from an account that has such privileges. If you are you a company Pc at your workplace then it is very likely that such privileges will be denied to you as a matter of policy by the IT folk.

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