Re: PLEASE HELP! Problem with permissions and security
From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 03/21/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:57:41 -0800
If you have XP Pro on the system, try treating this as a lost password and
use the hidden admin account to do the resetting as follows, if you aren't
getting to the welcome screen than you can't use this procedure and I'm not
clear if you are able to get that far.
Boot the system, at the log in screen type
ctrl-alt-delete twice. In the user account type administrator, leave the
password blank and
press enter. You likely didn't create a password for this hidden account
during setup and if the computer was purchased with XP pre-installed it
doesn't likely have one either. This will get you in, then change the
permissions or try using System Restore to take you back to a time prior to
when this began.
Something else to try, again, I'm not sure how far you are getting when you
boot or if it takes you to the menu but if tapping F8 finally brings you to
the menu, try selecting "Last Known Good Configuration" and see if that gets
you in.
If that fails, check the following Knowledge Base Article for how to restore
the registry as it might resolve this issue. NOTE: the article assumes you
have a retail CD of XP or if you have a disk supplied by your system
manufacturer it is the OEM equivalent and not a recovery disk or you have
only a recovery partition as the Recovery Console is not usually included
with those (depending upon manufacturer) and a recovery disk or partition
wouldn't ordinarily have an option to boot to the console:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "Don" <no@adr.com> wrote in message news:405de71f.47698724@news.cableaz.com... > Hi Alex, > > Thank you very much for coming back to me. I hit F8 to get to the > boot options list containing "safe Mode". But, when I try to run safe > mode I immediately get a list of system32 drivers listed on the > display. No message about them just a list. Then after a while the > computer resets itself. The last thing I did before losing control > was to set a single user, and only that user, with full control on the > entire C drive (ouch!). If there was just some way to logon as that > user I could change the attributes back. If it comes down to doing a > recovery (without disk reformat) will that form of recovery fix all > the system folder/files secuity and attributes? I sure would like to > try some other things before doing that. And, I definitely don't want > to reformat the disk, if at all possible. Isn't there some way to > boot a limited system from CD or floppy that will allow me to change > the attributes? > > Thanks for your help. > Don > > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:57:58 +0000, Alex Nichol > <alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> wrote: > >>Don wrote: >> >>>Thanks for your come back. I've tried Safe Mode, but apparently the >>>SYSTEM can't get to any of the files it needs, as it just reboots >>>itself. I'm thinking I'm going to have to use an emergency boot CD. >>>Do you think I could then somehow change the permissions, so that I >>>could subsequently do a Normal Boot? >> >> >>Try booting to Safe Mode - take administrator and see if it will boot. >>If it does, r-click drive C in My Computer, Properties, Security, select >>SYSTEM and give it Full Control. (And to your regular admin account). >> >>Next try would be booting Safe Mode - Command Prompt, and from that >>running >>C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe >>which is the system restore GUI - but I don't think it would help if,as >>it appears, this is a matter of the permissions recorded in the NTFS >>file system itself. System restore will not affect those. >> >>-- >>Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) >>Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit) > > > > -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- > http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! > -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----
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