Re: Welcome screen recycles - Unable to login

From: roitodd (roitodd_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:33:02 -0800

Hi,

I have a very similar problem, a lot of which I see posted here. However,
my problem only affects one user. I can login into the other user accounts,
and I check the registry and the registry entry as noted in the article is
correct; there is no mention of wsaupdater.

The other account I log into is the Administrator Account and the orginal
problem account I have is called Owner, which is also an Administrator.

The major problem I have, aside from not being able to access Owner, is that
the Administrator seems to have been limited in some way that is not apparent
to me. I can for example write or delete new files most ANYWHERE on the
computer. Even when I check file rights and take complete ownership, there
seems to be something overriding these settings I can not see.

I am REALLY wanting to recover the Owner account, because this is where I
have 100's of application settings I can not get to, but short of that I
would work with the Administrator account if it wasn't somehow being limited.
Any ideas on how to get into Owner, or reclaim true Administrator rights for
Administrator?

I found that my son was messing with Local Security settings in Control
Panel and I BELIEVE some Group settings, but what could possibly overtake the
Administrator rights in such a way?

"Tom Porterfield" wrote:

> depaz wrote:
> > is there another way? i have the same problem but dont have the techincal
> > understanding to do what the article says. Can I do something from the
> > safemood window? I cant log in using admin either.
>
> Can you log into safe mode? If so then you have a different problem.
> The problem discussed in the article would prevent you from logging in
> even in safe mode. Post back with more specifics on your problem.
> --
> Tom Porterfield
> MS-MVP MCE
> http://support.telop.org
>
> Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
>

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