Re: Administrator lost registry update/access capabilities

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On May 23, 4:01 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JHB wrote:
Hi:

I just got my computer back after it had its hard drive formatted
and windows XP reinstalled, and am in the process of trying to
reinstall all all my software including Office 2000.

I installed Office 2000  a couple of days ago, and it worked fine.

Once things were set I felt I didn't like the name I had been given,
and changed it (just the name). I still have administrator rights
(according to the notation by my name), but am getting a message
from Office that "Application must be installed to be run. Install
it using setup from the location where you originally installed the
application". I uninstalled and reinstalled office, but to no
avail. I have also tried to change some of the startup
applications, and have been told I don't have access to the
registry.

I appear to have lost the ability to update the registry (a serious
issue)), but no one seems to know how I can get it back. I have
changed my name back to the name that was originally used, but even
that doesn't work.

I am stuck..

I am not a tech type, so any help would be appreciated.

In what way did you 'change your name'?

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Shenan Stanley
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Thanks for responding.

The name given to me (as sole user and administrator) was :JOHN
I changed it to John Baker

I used the control panel..user accounts functions.

I did try and reset the name the same way, but it didn't change my
inability to access the register.

I also recently set up another account on the same machine (with
administrator priviledges) and that worked for installing office!
However I dont want to run two accounts on here, hence I want to
recover my ability on the first account.
.

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