Re: RE: Broken Admin rights
From: VictorAnderson - TechnoHippie (no_at_way.com)
Date: 06/16/04
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To: "natm" <natm@discussions.microsoft.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:00:16 -0500
Well based on you're problem I'd say you might have better luck in a
different newsgroup - I don't think this has anything to do with MCE,
but rather XP itself
....anyway here's some ideas....
It sounds to me like your profile is getting corrputed somehow. I've
seen this happen before (as matter of fact it's happened to me more
than once and different machines). I would suggest creating another
user account on the machine with ADMIN rights. I realize you said
you already did this...but I'd try it again. This time when you do
it...don't delete any of the other accounts. MAKE SURE you've set up
this new user as an administrator. Now keep in mind that once you've
done this it's possible that the files that were created by the
original admin user may not work with this new user if the profile is
corrupt.
Now last time I had a problem like this (about 18 months ago) I went
though all these steps and was FINALLY able to get my XP Pro machine
up and going....for a few days - then more problems with the new
profile. Making a looooong story short - what it turned out to be
was actually a bad hard-drive. At one point I had even reinstalled
Windows (a clean install - even did the format/fdisk stuff) - and
then ended up with the same problem again in a few more days.
Problem was that there was a bad-spot on my hard-drive - and even
when I reinstalled windows it would end up with the profiles in the
same sectors of the hard-drive - I assume because XP installs it in
the same place each time....so if the problem persists examine your
HD closely (there are ways to do this - even some 3rd party stuff to
help you out..let me know if you need more info on this).
Best of luck.....
06/15/2004 4:42:02 PM
natm <natm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> THREE DAYS AND NO RESPONSE - NOT EVEN A "TOUGH BREAK PAL, JUST
REINSTALL" FROM ANY OF THE GURUS. i'M DISAPPOINTED IN THIS FORUM ON
THIS ISSUE.
> --
> Nat
>
>
> "natm" wrote:
>
> > Apparently my Admin rights are bent or broken. FYI - I'm running
XP Pro MCE 2004 on a fairly new HP zd7180 notebook. All had been
working weel until several weeks ago. (Then I went out of town, so
didn't do much to try to correct, other than what follows.)
> > I first noticed a problem severla weeks ago when I could not
download the Guide. I also could not run my Retrospect backup
program (external Maxstor 160 GB HD, configures as 2 80GBs, one as
backup for the internal 80GB HD, othere as "play space". Error
message is that Retrospect culd not load since I needed to have
Administraotr rights - which I have!
> > Based on HP Support, I tried an OS repair. About 10 min. into
the process, Windws reported a COM+ error, but it then proceeded to
go through the rest of the repair. Still no rights restored.
> > Aso unable to install fix from Microsoft for MCE (Q815487) but
all other updates and patches have been applied successfully.
> > Latest sympton was when trying to set up a dial up connection (I
normally use cable) from my vacation site, I got an error saying the
bob@nospam.org <bob@nospam.org>Wizad could not open the phonebook
file. I was able to go to the command prompt to turn off the hidden
and read only attributes on the phonebook (.pbk) files, I could then
create the dialup connection fine onthe exposed files.
> > I have scanned and rescanned for viruses, and have used the
several antispyware programs, and everything comes out clean.
> >
> > SO, I'm assuming (could be making as a-- of me) that somehow my
rights over hidden and read only files is not working properly (When
I try to turn on display of these files through Control Panel, it
doen't take.) I even went so far as to delete me as a user, and
receate my account with Admin level, but no help.
> > Can anyone give me any fixes (short of re-formatting HD and
reinstalling everything - OS, applicatins, patches, and backup data
files)? Are there placed in the registry to look for rights/symptoms
that might hold clues or fixes??
> >
> > Thanks (in advance) to anyone who can advise/help.
> > --
> > Nat
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