Re: Administrative Rights/Permissions Changed

Oh, BTW. I forgot to mention that nothing happens when I select SYSTEM
RESTORE. The hour glass appears momentarily and disappears. I then
selected to UNMONITOR drives in the SYSTEM RESTORE settings and this
made no difference. I am also using XP Pro SP2.

Sam


"Sam" <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2%SLf.69034$B94.4289@xxxxxxxxxxx
: Hello,
:
: How do I change my rights/permission to default administrator/power
: users for all apps and system? Some time ago, I had a friend help me
: with my PC and the software permissions were changed to manipulate a
: piece of software to run. Everything was fine until now.
:
: My Norton AV had recently expired so I installed AVG, free anti-virus.
: AVG would not update indicating that I don't have sufficient rights.
I
: tried to uninstall AVG but it would not let me. I also had difficulty
: in uninstalling Norton but I was able to do so. With AVG, an error
: message pops up that one of the files in c:\windows\Programs\AVG is
: unable to be deleted because of insufficient rights. I signed in as
: administrator but I was not able to uninstall it from that as well.
: Right now, my system is defenceless. I tried to uninstall as both
: (admin)/power users.
:
: I have two users(A) and (B) setup as "Administrators" and (C) as basic
: guest. I would like to somehow reset the two users (A&B) and the main
: Administrator to the default Administrator rights but I don't know
which
: files/directories were initially effected initially.
:
: Can someone provide me with some assistance on how to go about and
: change things back to the way they should be?
:
: Thanks in advance.
:
: Sam
:
:


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