How can I have Debug privilege?

Hi,

When I try to open Filemon or Process Explorer, I received a message like what my account don't have the Debug privilege necessary How can I get my account the debug privilege?

I have windows XP with SP2 and I have only one account on my PC (administrator account).

Thank you for your help,
Atomas31

 

Hi Atomas31,

Check your Local Security Policy (in Administrative Tools) and see if it is enabled for Administrators.

Nick

 

Hi Nick s,

Could you be a little more specific about the path where I can have access to local security policy? I have to specifie that my system is in French so that make sometime more difficult to found something without the path ;-)

Thanks,
Atomas31

 

The easiest way to get there is to go Start, Run, type secpol.msc, and hit Enter. You can also find it in the Control Panel. Double-click on Administrative Tools and look for the Local Security Policy icon.

Nick

 

I have tried and I received a message like what MMC can't open secpol.msc

What can I do now?

Thanks

 

Did you try to open it from Control Panel/Administrative Tools?

Nick

 

No, I have try from the start/run way because I don't found it in my control panel/administrative tools!

Atomas31

 

Is this XP Pro or Home?

Nick

 

XP home

Atomas31

 

Unfortunately, Local Security Policy is not available in XP Home. I have run Filemon and Process Explorer on XP Home systems under user accounts with standard admin privileges. Are you sure you are running as admin?

Nick

 

Yes or at least I think so since I am the only user of this computer! Is there a way to verified that?

Atomas31

 

Users in XP Home run as admin by default. You can check by looking in Control Panel/User Accounts and click your account icon.

Nick

 

I've check and I effectively run as Admin, so now what do I do to solve my problem?

Thanks,
Atomas31

 

Try going Start/Run, type and execute the following (you can copy/paste it):

runas /user:Administrator "c:\*\filemon.exe"

Insert the path to filemon.exe for the *. You will be prompted for a password. If you never set a password for the Administrator account, leave it blank and hit Enter. Otherwise enter the password.

Nick

 

i've read afew times that it's possible to upgrade from XP home to XP Pro by downloading the upgrades from the internet, so it might be possible to download the Local Security Policy somewhere.