Re: Access to Network and Dial-Up Connections blocked
- From: "Roger Fink" <fink@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 20:13:57 -0400
I will do those checks and post back, but to answer your question, I
recently upgraded about twenty basic drivers from the Lenovo website driver
matrix for this model. I also upgraded the BIOS and BIOS embedded
controller.
Allow me a rant: We don't know that the driver upgrades are necessarily the
cause of the problem but the fact that they could be I find outrageous,
since it's a normal procedure that "intermediate" level users are encouraged
to do (and should). How many are going to find their way to this group to
(hopefully) get bailed out? The more likely destination: the repair shop.
John John (MVP) wrote:
Look in the registry under either or both the HKCU or HKLM branch to
see
if a NoPropertiesMyComputer policy exists :
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/980/
If the policy is not in the registry look in the \WINNT\system32
folder
for the SYSDM.CPL file and make sure that you have proper permissions
on
the file.
Did you by any chance recently upgrade, change or add security
software
to your machine? New or different AntiVirus or Firewall or other
security suite? These applications now often disable some of those
things without alerting the users. Also make sure that you have no
virus or other malware on the machine.
John
Roger Fink wrote:
That solved the problem. Thanks very much.
Unfortunately a new, mission critical one has crept up. I can't open
System in Control Panel (nothing happens at all - no error message).
Before posting this I checked every other item in Control Panel and
they all open up. I also notice that, unlike my desktop, when I
right-click My Computer, there is no Properties option, which would
open the same panel. I re-enabled Remove Network Connection from
Start Menu to see if that had something to do with it, but that had
no effect, so I doubt that the enabled/not configured change caused
it, but whatever the problem, it is fairly recent, since I was able
to open System a couple of days ago.
John John (MVP) wrote:
It sounds like you may have disabled it through one of the Group
Policy Objects.
To open the Group Policy snap-in enter gpedit.msc in the Start
Menu
Run box. In the Group Policly look at:
User Configuration
\Administrative Templates
\Start Menu & Taskbar
\Remove Network Connection from Start Menu
Set this policy to "Not Configured". You may need to reboot to have
the
GPO apply... or wait about 90 minutes for the default GPO refresh
rate
to reapply the policy.
John
Roger Fink wrote:
This is not familiar terrtory for me, so I'm following along as
best
I can. I assume you are referring to Event Viewer. Under System Log
there is a recent warning event. When I doublle click it, it says
"Adapter Intel PRO/100VE Network Connection Adapter Link Down".
The message when I click the Control Panel icon is "You do not have
permission to open the Network and Dial-up Connection folder".
There
is no error number.
I can't get to this right now but I will follow up on your
suggestions. I'm unfamiliar with the Ncpa.cpl file, but I'll do
what
I can and post back. Please feel free to add anything else in the
interim.
John John (MVP) wrote:
What happens when you try to open it? Are you recieving any error
messages? What about the Event Log, are any errors showing there?
If this is a permissions issue check and make sure that you have
proper permissions on the Ncpa.cpl file. You may have other
(registry keys) permissions which may prevent opening the file,
try
this and see if it fixes things:
Aaron Stebner's WebLog
Solving setup errors by using the SubInACL tool to repair file and
registry permissions
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx
John
Roger Fink wrote:
I am in a losing battle with my IBM laptop over access to Network
and Dial-Up Connections (shades of HAL 9000), which it will not
let me
into come hell or high water from either of the two
administrative profiles on this machine. I even created a third
administrative
profile in an attempt to outsmart it, but access to this is just
blocked, period.
I'm not sure if the IBM "Access Connections" program on the
laptop, which does seem to work, covers the same territory, but
I'd like to
be able to fix this, which is the only listing in Control Panel I
can't open.
.
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