Admin Priveleges Not Working

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From: Gary (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:27:55 -0700

Hi All,
       After having to use System Restore on a client,
I've noticed that our XP Pro workstations have all lost
Administrator Priveleges. All local admin accounts have
been disabled and the SBS admin is the only member of
the "administrators" group. The workstations log into the
SBS server under the admin account but i can't System
Restore, Windows Update, Add/ Remove software etc. These
workstations are fully patched but I checked 3 others
that haven't been used the last month & weren't patched
last month. They all have Admin account full priveleges
therefore I'm assuming it was one of last months
hotfixes. I can't remove the relevant hotfixes as I don't
have the privelege & all I could find Googling was Kb
313222. Has anyone come across this problem recently?
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to rectify
this situation. As you can imagine this is annoying &
next Tues is Windows Update time!

TIA

Gary

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