Parental Control Access Denied PLEASE HELP

[scottboy76]

OK,
I've donwloaded my copy thru STEAM but it's not a STEAM issue because I posted a thread with the same issue yesterday but with the DEMO.
Now the FULL VERSION is doing the same thing.

When I load the game it comes up with a Vista Window saying "PARENTAL CONTROL ACCESS DENIED. THE GAME WILL NOW SHUT DOWN"

I think I need help from someone from 2K. I received replies from ppl yesterday trying to help when they didn't even read my post all the way thru and didn't even know what Parental Control on Vista does.

What I have done so far:

1)Installed PC DEMO using Typical settings - This first of all gave me no option to add ICONS to desktop, nor did it tell me where it had installed it (had to find it in Explorer under 2Kgames folder. ALso on load of exe comes up with "Parental Control Access Denied"

2)Uninstalled and Re-Installed using Custom settings - This time it gave me option of adding ICONS, but still gave me "Parental Control Access Denied" error window.

3)Tried to change Parental Control settings in Control Panel, but as Administrator, Parental Control features don't apply... so technically I shouldn't be getting this error.

4)For the sake of trial and error I created a new user account so I could force the Parental Controls to turn OFF, still got "Parental Control Access Denied" error message

5)Gave up on DEMO

6)Today tried loading the FULL VERSION I purchased thru STEAM and I got "Parental Control Access Denied" error message.

7)Proceeded to pull hair out...

My Specs, not that I think they should matter in this case cos the game doesn't even load, but if I don't put them someone will ask...

Intel Core2 Duo E6850 @ Default 3Ghz
Nvidia 8800GTX running latest Beta Drivers
Windows Vista 32bit Ultimate

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COULD SOMEONE FROM 2K HELP!!!!!!!
thanks

[scottboy76]

my message keeps getting lost in the crowd....*sigh*
reply if you're having the same issue even plz

[scottboy76]

please someone from 2K please read this aaargh

[scottboy76]

gotta keep movin to the top, must be heard!!!

[scottboy76]

come on guys i wanna play

[DrkRaven]

Oh snap, thats going to be a good one
Looked at :
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/turn_on...ows_vista.html

Or setup second account as "admin"
Login as second account
Disable Parental controls on primary account
log back in

Enjoy?

[scottboy76]

did that, can't change parental controls on primary account, it just wont open that account in the parental controls window cos its administrator (even tho the new account was admin also)
i set up another account and just called it scott and tried to start the exe from the steamapps folder in explorer and this it said something about failed to retreive application serial from steam (the window was from securom)
sigh

[DrkRaven]

Yea you need to setup your steam account in the other profile too champ, that'll fix that problem.

Also side note : There is no account called "Administrator" (well built in account by MS like XP and 2k have.) :P sorry had to throw that in there to save confusion.

[scottboy76]

setup steam account in other profile, it did some updates on steam for a second, ran bioshock , exact same problem, all Parental Controls switched OFF
seriously pulling my hair out with this one

Account 1 is called Administrator - Can't change Parental Controls, not even from antoher admin priveliges account
Account 2 is calle Scott - as a standard user I can make it have Parental Controls OFF from 'Account 1', but if I give it Admin priveliges I can't touch parental control because the default is OFF, doesn't apply to admins

can run steam on both accounts, comes up with same error on both accounts.
think were barkin up the wrong tree of technical issues

[DrkRaven]

Seems so...

As Scott:
Run Steam (so you get the task tray applet)
Goto the Steamdir/blahblah/bioshock
right click "run as Administrator"
should prompt with a few bodgy Vista click to continue

Try that.